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Hi,

I have to develop application to read electronic meter data and save this data to database.

Please let me know some basic concept to interface with electronic meter which is used in home. what will be required to interface with meter and how to read data(units) from meter.

Thanks.
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Updated 7-Aug-12 9:56am
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You can read following article about AMR (Automatic meter), about the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices (gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_meter_reading[^]

You also can read about it here:
http://www.sari-energy.org/PageFiles/What_We_Do/activities/Afghan_Capacity_Building_Program_Aug_09/Metering_Systems_and_Management_Sep_2010/Presentations/English/Meter_MRI_and_Smart_2k_220910.pdf[^]
http://www.griffmonster.com/miscellaneous/electricmeter/electric_digital_meter_reading.html[^]
 
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Volynsky Alex 8-Aug-12 17:43pm    
Also read it :
http://www.sensus.com/web/usca/solution/automatic-meter-reading-amr
and it:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/customer_services/amr_about.shtml
Pravinjas 13-Aug-12 0:25am    
Thanks...
Volynsky Alex 13-Aug-12 7:33am    
You are welcome!

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