EKM Metering System: How it Works

The EKM Metering System: How It Works

Meters

We have designed all of our products with care. We have focused on reliability, economy, accuracy, and remote and automatic readability. We provide cutting edge economical electric, water, and gas meters. Our system focuses on getting our customers the information they need to create accountability and to spur savings of the resources of energy and water.

Electric:

Our electric meters work by precisely measuring the current and voltage of your sytem thousands of times per second to give you the revenue grade accuracy you need. They can also be read remotely either by industry standard simplistic pulse outputs or by highly advanced 2 way communications through the RS-485 interface. This allows for much more frequent, accurate, and reliable data which can be accessed from your computer from anywhere in the world. We want to give you the tools required to create bills, identify issues, save energy, and to change electricity from the invisible to the tangilble and understandable.

Water and Gas:

We want to do with our water and gas meters what we have done with electricity. Make them easy to understand with highly accurate data about usage available at anytime from anywhere in the world.

Remote Metering

All of our systems focus on reliable, cheap and easy access to your data. We have made some key decisions to make our products stand out. One of the best has been our use of RS-485 for meter communications. This standard allows for true 2 way data communications between our meters and our software or our EKM Push system. This has been important for some other reasons as well: it is easier to install (only requires one twisted pair of wire, instead of dedicated wire pairs running back to an expensive pulse accumulator), you can have 256 of our meters per converter on up to 4000 feet of wire, the data is more reliable (if you lose your connection and regain it soon after you are not lost and wont have to send someone to manually read all of your meters like you would with a pulse counting system), RS-485 allows for wireless communications (see our 485Bee), and you get a lot more useful data out of your meter (instead of just kWH, you get Total kWh in up to 4 time-of-use periods, Reverse kWH in up to 4 time-of-use periods, volts on each line, amps on each line, watts on each line, total watts, power factor on each line, max demand, CT ratio, pulse counts, and meter time.

We strive to offer the most advanced, most economical, most reliable, with the easiest access to data of any metering system in the world.