Electricity Smart Meters And Electricity Distribution Systems
AssigneePower Pay, Inc.
InventorAndrew Joshua March
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Abstract
A smart meter can include a plurality of relays for providing power to corresponding power lines, each of the plurality of relays associated with a customer's account and a management system storing customer account information and controlling and tracking a power usage for each of the plurality of relays, and based on the power usage and the corresponding customer account information turning on or off power to the corresponding power line.
Claims20
An electricity distribution system, comprising:
- a meter including:
- a plurality of relays correspondingly electrically coupled to a plurality of power lines;
- and
- a management system communicatively coupled to each of said plurality of relays, said management system operable to monitor electrical power usage of each of said plurality of power lines correspondingly connected to said plurality of relays;
- a communication system communicatively coupled to said management system;
- and
- a central system communicatively coupled to said communication system, said central system transmitting customer account payment information of each a plurality of customer accounts to said communication system;
- said management system associating each one of said plurality of customer accounts to a corresponding one of said plurality of relays, said management system controlling access to electrical power based on said customer account payment information transmitted from said central system.
The system 6, wherein said one or more management system controllers further executable to calculate said amount of credit based on customer account payment information communicated from said central system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.