• January 8, 2024

    Preventive Measures for Virus Control

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    There is an additional difference between rectal measurement and infrared measurement in the range of 0.03 °C.

  • February 8, 2024

    What is Measurement Uncertainty?

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    When we do high precision measurements we have to make sure that we are getting the measurement results as accurate as possible.

  • February 4, 2024

    Wrong Phase Sequence

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    The measurement circuit of CLOU three-phase energy meters constantly monitors transition through zero on all phase voltages.

  • January 19, 2022

    Welcome to the Year of the Rat 2020

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    As usual our company has rented the Shenzhen sports stadium for the annual Spring Festival Gala and Outstanding Staff Award Ceremony.

  • November 15, 2023

    What are Transient Voltages?

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    Transient voltages are short time peaks in the a.c. power supply. They typically last a few milliseconds and the voltage can reach several thousand volt. A transient is by definition shorter than half cycle.

  • November 16, 2023

    What is a Voltage Swell Event?

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    A voltage swell is a surge (increase) of voltage above 110% of the rms magnitude in your power grid. The duration can be between ½ cycle and one minute. (EN 50160)

  • October 20, 2023

    What is a Voltage Dip Event?

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    Sometimes it's also referred to voltage sag (IEEE term). The meaning is the same. This article explains the power quality event logging inside of smart meters.

  • October 19, 2023

    The First Breath Notification

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    The First Breath Push notification is sent to the head end system (HES) as soon as the meter is powered up.

  • October 28, 2023

    The DLMS Push Message

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    A electronic energy meter with communication via DLMS can be configured to send Push messages.
    Usually a meter acts as a server.

  • October 30, 2023

    The Last Gasp Outage Notification

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    Smart meters can generate a Push message in case of power fail. This event is called Last Gasp.

  • October 19, 2023

    Practical Use of Load Profiles

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    Electronic energy meters can save internally a lot of data. When this data are saved periodically with time stamp, we talk about a load profile.

  • December 19, 2023

    The TOU Tariff Structure

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    TOU stands for time of use. It's getting popular together with smart energy meters and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).