Electricity, water & natural gas supply and heating have become the indispensable resources in our everyday lives. But due to technological limitations, the traditional energy, water, gas and heat meters lack in the innovations offered by the modern day state-of-the-art communication, sensing and display technologies. For this reason, manual meter reading have long been considered inappropriate for the modern age.
With the introduction of these recent innovations, metering devices can be transformed into smart meters which have abundant functions, is easy to read and capable of transmitting data remotely. [+MORE]
A smart meter is typically composed of sensors, signal conditioning and collection, MCU, communication, display and smart card reader. The different smart meters require different sensors. Energy meters need voltage and current sensors. Water meters need flow sensors to measure flowing fluid. Heat meters need both flow sensors and temperature sensors. Gas meters need airflow sensors, temperature sensors and pressure sensors. Signal Conditioning and collection blocks are used to adjust and amplify the small signals from sensors and convert into digital signals that MCU can use. MCU is the core of a smart meter, responsible for the control of all the functions such as display, communication, calculation based on measured data, smartcard reading, and time-division charge. Smart meters usually use LCD for the display of readings and alarm information. Depending on different requirements and management modes, one of the wired communication methods such as CAN and RS485 can be selected for smart meters, and a wireless communication method such as Zigbee can be adopted. Smart card readers on smart meters make it possible to realize prepaid usage for utilities and customers.[-LESS]
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DEMO9S08LC60
FREESCALE
The DEMO9S08LC60 Demonstration board has been designed for the evaluation, demonstration and the debugging of the Freescale MC9S08LC60 microcontroller. |
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DEMO9S08MP16
FREESCALE
The DEMO9S08MP16 is a low cost development system supporting MC9S08MP16 Microcontrollers. |
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MSP430-4619LCD
OLIMEX
MSP430-4619LCD is MPS430FG4619 starter kit development board with color graphics LCD, accelerometer, JTAG, SD/MMC card holder, joystick, two buttons, serial infrared transceiver and extension headers for most of the microcontroller pins. |
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MSP-EXP430FG4618
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
This versatile MSP430 Experimenter Board features a MSP430F2013 and a MSP430FG4618 and is compatible with TI’s wireless evaluation modules. |
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CC2420EMK
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
The CC2420 is a true single-chip 2.4 GHz 802.15.4 compliant RF transceiver designed for low-power and low-voltage wireless applications. |
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AC164134-2
MICROCHIP
The MRF24J40MB PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board is a demo/development board for the MRF24J40MB 2.4GHz IEEE Std. 802.15.4™ 20 dBm RF Tranceiver Module. The board plugs into multiple Microchip Demo/development boards, such as the PIC18 Explorer Board (DM183032) or the Explorer 16 Develpopment Board (DM240001). |
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JN5148-001-M04
JENNIC/NXP
The JN5148-001-Myy modules are targeted at low-power wireless networking applications, removing the need for lengthy development of custom RF board designs and test suites. They use JN5148 wireless microcontroller to provide a comprehensive solution. JN5148-001-M04 comes with an antenna connector, power amplifier and LNA for extended range. All modules can run networking stacks such as JenNet and ZigBee PRO as well as customer applications. |
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ETRX357
TELEGESIS
ETRX357 is a low power 2.4GHz ZigBee module, based on the 3rd generation Ember EM357 chipset offering highest wireless networking performance and application code space at the lowest power consumption. The modules’ unique AT-style command line interface allows designers to quickly integrate ZigBee technology without complex software engineering. For custom application development the ETRX35x development kits integrate with ease into Ember’s InSight development environment. |
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ATZB-A24-UFLR
ATMEL
This is 2.4 GHz Power Amplified OEM Module with U.FL Antenna Connector. The module is compatible with IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee stack supporting a self-healing, selforganizing mesh network, while optimizing network traffic and minimizing power consumption. |
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1323XDSK-BDM
FREESCALE
The Kit offers a hardware platform for evaluating MC1323X System on Chip (SoC). The MC1323X kit is optimized to support SynkroRF and RF4CE consumer applications for direct implementation into their end systems, thereby reducing design time and associated costs. |
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EB051C
MATRIX
The Kit provides a Zigbee node interface that can connect to or create a Zigbee network of dynamic moveable Zigbee nodes, or to interface with an existing Zigbee network. The EB051 is fully compliant with both the Zigbee pro (07) and ZNET (08) Zigbee standards. Once the module has been configured and assigned to the correct address then sending and receiving data is as simple as sending and receiving RS232 bytes through the chip’s UART. |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
Ultra-Low Power Motion Detection Using the MSP430F2013 |
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MSP430F4XX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
Three-Phase Electronic Watt-Hour Meter Design Using MSP430 |
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MSP430F4XX |
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| MICROCHIP |
MCU |
AN1267 - nanoWatt & nanoWatt XLP(TM) Technologies: An Introduction to Microchip's Low Power devices |
PIC16F193x |
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| MICROCHIP |
MCU |
AN1303 - Software Real-Time Clock and Calendar Using PIC16F1827 |
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PIC16F193x |
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
LCD Driver Specification |
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MC9S08LL16 |
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
Emulated EEPROM Implementation in Dual Flash Architecture and Demo Description on MC9S08LG32 |
MC9S08LL16 |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
A Low-Cost Single-Phase Electricity Meter Using MSP430C11x |
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MSP430C11x |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
Using GMR Sensors With the MSP430 Scan Interface |
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MSP430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
Current Transformer Phase Shift Compensation and Calibration |
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MSP430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
Rotary/Linear Motion Detection Using the MSP430 Scan Interface & Optical Sensors |
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MSP430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
MSP430 Value Line LaunchPad Development Kit |
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
S08LL16PWRCMPWP |
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Product Type
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
Demonstration board for the DEMO9S08LC60 microcontroller |
DEMO9S08LC60 |
9S08LC60 |
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
S08MP16 Demonstration board |
DEMO9S08MP16 |
9S08MP16 |
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| OLIMEX |
MCU |
MPS430F169 STARTERKIT DEVELOPMENT BOARD WITH GRAPHICS LCD |
MSP430-169LCD |
MPS430FXX |
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| OLIMEX |
MCU |
MPS430F449 STARTERKIT DEVELOPMENT BOARD |
MSP430-449STK2 |
MPS430FXX |
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| OLIMEX |
MCU |
MPS430FG4619 STARTERKIT DEVELOPMENT BOARD WITH COLOR GRAPHICS LCD,ACCELEROMETER |
MSP430-4619LCD |
MPS430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
MSP430 Wireless Development Tool |
EZ430-RF2500 |
MSP430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
MSP430 2.4-GHz Wireless Target Board |
EZ430-RF2500T |
MSP430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
MSP430F5438 Experimenter Board |
MSP-EXP430F5438 |
MSP430FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
MSP430 28-Pin Target Board and USB Programmer |
MSP-FET430U28 |
MSP432FXX |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS |
MCU |
MSP430 64-Pin Target Board and USB Programmer |
MSP-FET430U64 |
MSP433FXX |
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
Getting Started with RS08 MCUs |
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| FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR |
MCU |
S08SF 8 Bit Microcontrollers and Development Kits |
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| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY |
RF |
Study on 0.4GHz to 2.7GHz High Linearity Upconverting Mixer |
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MCU |
PIC18F2XK20/4XK20 8-Bit Microcontroller Family |
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| MICROCHIP |
MCU |
An Introduction to nanoWatt XLP: PIC18F46J50 |
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MCU |
8-Bit CMOS Microcontrollers With nanoWatt Technology |
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MCU |
Getting Started with MSP430 MCUs |
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RF |
eZ430-Chronos Wireless Watch Development Tool |
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