Development of a data acquisition and management system for smart grid

Meter reading has been implemented ever since the utilities has started to supply water, electricity and gas to the household premises, industrial zones, factories and businesses. Currently, there are 3 methods of gathering the usage of the supplies. They are (i) traditional manual meter reading, (ii) automatic meter reading (AMR) and (iii) advanced meter infrastructure (AMI). Traditional manual meter reading requires a physical site visit to the customer premises by a personal from utilities to record down the actual data used by the customer. AMR is an alternative method whereby it transfers the data consumption from the customer premises to the utilities by mean of wireline/wireless communication. However, this type of method only supports one way communication for the transfer of the data from the meters to the utilities. However, AMI is the most advance method which is an integrated system of smart meters, communications network and data management systems. Not only it gathers the data from the customer, but it also applies two way communications between the customers and the utilities. Since AMI is yet to be implemented in Singapore, this project performs on the analysis of costs and benefits of the implementation of AMI in Singapore.Bachelor of Engineerin