Remote Monitoring, Net Metering, Fault Detection and Maintenance

A smart power grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operation and energy measures including smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources, and energy efficient resources.Metering of electricity consumption was necessary on a per-user basis in order to allow appropriate billing according to the highly variable level of consumption of different users.Remote monitoring describes the monitoring of remote (usually off-grid) energy systems from a geographically distant location. Most remote monitoring systems (RMS) available today monitor the functionality and performance of energy generation systems (typically solar or wind energy), however end-user consumptive applications such as cook-stoves can also be monitored.Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) is a subfield of control engineering which concerns itself with monitoring a system, identifying when a fault has occurred, and pinpointing the type of fault and its location.