The IP-meter, design concept and example implementation of an Internet enabled power line quality meter

An Internet Protocol enabled meter, IP-meter, has been designed. As an example of the IP-meter a power line quality meter fully accessible over the Internet has been implemented. The meter is capable of measuring line frequency harmonics with spectral information, transients, line voltage RMS with sags and swells analysis. The Internet access for this application is made over a thin Ethernet medium. The Internet connection is made with a three part design concept: sensor part, microprocessor part and communication part. Served by the built in Webserver the meter is fully accessible via a standard internet browser. Meter setup, data display etc. are made using html pages and Java applets.