Traditional electricity meters are replaced by Smart Meters in customers’ households. Smart Meters collect fine-grained utility consumption profiles from customers, which in turn enables the introduction of dynamic, time-of-use tariffs. However, the fine-grained usage data that is compiled in this process also allows to infer the inhabitant’s personal schedules and habits. We propose a privacy-...

In this paper the use of a Hybrid Wireless Mesh Network (HWMN) technologies for the smart grid of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), which enables the collecting of meter data in real-time, was proposed and analyzed. A Google Maps mashup was developed to read the real GIS data from a local utility company and display the locations of the meters and light poles, which can be selected for mo...

Increasing commercial, scientific, and technical applications involving ultraviolet (UV) radiation have led to the demand for improved understanding of the performance of instrumentation used to measure this radiation. There has been an effort by manufacturers of UV measuring devices (meters) to produce simple, optically filtered sensor systems to accomplish the varied measurement needs. We add...

this paper attempts to examine the effect of water spreading on soil physico-chemical properties, and vegetative characteristics of common mesquite. for this, on the basis of flood water discharge, three sections of lands were accurately selected at kosar water spreading experimental station, in tangestan, bushehr province. in each section, 6 profiles were digged out and studied; meanwhile soil...

The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) allows utility companies to read meters from a distance. Thus a meter reader need not visit every customer on his route, but only get within a certain radius of each customer. In finding an optimal route – one that minimizes the distance the meter reader travels while servicing each customer on his route – this notion of only needing to be close ...

A real-time smart metering system has strict requirements, since every piece of data gathered from various meters every hour is of importance, and each component consisting of metering infrastructure should be sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary to efficiently manage the meter data set in smart metering networks as well as in a server. Therefore, we propose a dedicated file system, a LIght-...

Musical meters vary considerably across cultures, yet relatively little is known about how culture-specific experience influences metrical processing. In Experiment 1, we compared American and Indian listeners’ synchronous tapping to slow sequences. Inter-tone intervals contained silence or to-be-ignored rhythms that were designed to induce a simple meter (familiar to Americans and Indians) or ...