Deck 2: Smart Meters and in Home Displays

Question 1

The first step in installing an IHD is to determine whether your home is equipped with a smart meter on the incoming device.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The user of electricity, natural gas, or water measured by an ordinary meter has no incentive to minimize use during high demand periods because the charge is the same regardless of when the use occurs.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

One free energy monitoring tool that enables a consumer to view home energy consumption from anywhere online using information provided by monitoring systems like the TED 5000, utility smart meters, or other energy monitoring devices is the ____________________.

Answer 3

Google PowerMeter
Microsoft Hohm

Question 4

Explain how the use of gas smart meters differs from the use of electric smart meters.

Question 5

Smart water meters are also being installed by many water utilities, and these devices do not make it possible for companies to charge for water use on an upward sliding scale.

Question 6

If you do not have a smart meter and are unlikely to get one soon, you can still use an IHD to monitor energy use.The IHD will receive its data input from ____________________ placed on the incoming power lines at the service panel rather than from the meter outside.

Question 7

The overall technology system that utilizes smart meters, communications links that connect them with utilities and consumers, and other hardware components and software programs that analyze and act on the data provided is known as ____________________.

Question 8

The data accumulated and transmitted to the supplier utilities by electric, gas and water smart meters is also available to the home or business owner through the use of a(n) ____________________.

Question 9

Many suppliers, especially in areas where water is scarce, charge customers at a set rate for the first ____________________ of water they use in a given time period.

Question 10

Describe the PowerPortal Home display.

Question 11

The ____________________ uses a hardware-based gateway to receive signals from voltage and current sensors that are installed at the home service panel.

Question 12

If the MTU uses ____________________, such as WiFi or ZigBee, no connections to the AC wiring are needed and the MTU transmits directly to the IHD or gateway.

Question 13

List the components of the programming instructions needed if you buy an IHD from a third party supplier.

Question 14

Describe the functionality of a net meter.

Question 15

Describe how the use of smart meters reduces labor costs.

Question 16

Some smart meters transmit their data via a dedicated radio frequency (RF) network owned by the utility, while others use ____________________ networks.

Question 17

Discuss why peak load power is more expensive.

Question 18

A simple IHD connected only to the home's heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system can cut electricity use by about 10 percent.

Question 19

Berg Insight projects that growth of smart meter installation will continue, with many markets approaching 100 percent penetration by 2015.