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Landis+Gyr was founded in 1896 as Theiler & Co. in Zug, in the canton of Zug, Switzerland, by technician Richard Theiler and entrepreneur Adelrich Gyr. [1] It began by manufacturing electricity meters that were developed by Theiler. [1]
The term smart meter often refers to an electricity meter, but it also may mean a device measuring natural gas, water or district heating consumption. [1] [2] More generally, a smart meter is an electronic device that records information such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor.
North American domestic analog (Ferraris disk) electricity meter. Electricity meter with transparent plastic case (Israel) An electricity meter, electric meter, electrical meter, energy meter, or kilowatt-hour meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a residence, a business, or an electrically powered device over a time interval.
A home energy monitor device provides information about electrical energy usage to a consumer of electricity (i.e., a homeowner). In addition to the amount of electrical usage, devices may display other information, including the cost of energy used and estimates of greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of such devices is to assist in the ...
How to tell if your electric meter is tampered with. Electric theft is a common problem. Specialty seals, such as the one the White family says their meter had, are often used to determine whether ...
Programma Electric AB was a Swedish electrical test and measurement equipment manufacturer founded in 1976. [ 38 ] It provided products including: circuit breaker analysers, battery load testers, primary injection testers, vacuum interrupter testers , micrometers and protective relay test instruments .
Automatic meter reading (AMR) is 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. This technology mainly saves utility providers the expense of periodic ...
During July 2013, it was announced that Invensys was set to be taken over by Schneider Electric, one of the firm's long term competitors, for a total consideration of £3.4 billion. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] The deal was noted to likely involve job losses as Schneider revealed plans to make cost savings of around €140m (£122m) per year. [ 30 ]