Novel Approach for Remote Energy Meter Reading Using Mobile Agents

Power or energy meter systems can be incorporated with embedded controllers such as micro Web-servers with Ethernet port to transmit the reader data over the Internet. Such data can be then fed and integrated into existing energy management systems located at power companies and organizations. The problem of efficiently collecting data from a large number of distributed embedded Web-servers in the energy meters is still a challenging problem. Mobile agents are executing programs that migrate during execution and present methods for maintaining and using distributed systems. In this paper, we develop a new abstract approach using mobile agents to solve the problem of efficiently collecting meters readings