Wired Remote Water Meter

The Power-Free and Blind-Spot-Free Direct-reading Water Meter System is specifically designed and developed for the management of meter reading and billing for water companies. It replaces the traditional water measurement technology of reed switch and pulse by the adoption of an innovative direct-reading method to collect water consumption data from the water meter’s mechanical wheel which guarantees metering data accuracy without electromechanical inconformity.

I.Description of the System

The main components of the system, as shown below, include a direct-reading resistance water meter, data concentrator, portable meter reading device, and an administration software system.

Power-Free and Blind-Spot-Free

Direct-Reading Water Meter System

The power-free and blind-spot-free direct-reading meters are installed in the user’s piping to calculate water consumption, and this is done through the RS-485 wired remote data passage to transmit data from the meter to the concentrator. The meters do NOT need power to operate as the water consumption can be measured by the mechanical part. Power is only needed at the time of meter reading, which means that the concentrator supplies power to the meter when it reads data from the meter and sends out collection data command. At this time, the direct-reading meter collects data from the mechanical number wheel, and the data collected from each meter is being sent back to the concentrator for st