Smart meter for the IoT

In recent years, smart devices are increasingly. These devices allow making cities smart, enabling communication not only among people but also among things, creating a new system nowadays known by the term IoT (Internet of Things). A smart city is based on a smart grid that allows to intelligently manage the power grid. In order to do this, the network must have intelligent meters that can communicate bidirectionally with the network. This market has led to a proliferation of smart meters that give the opportunity to measure the consumption of each single device in homes. The most part of smart meters are based on a chip that calculates the parameters needed to estimate energy consumption. In this paper, the authors consider a smart meter based on a common chip that calculate the power consumption and the meter characterization is reported.