ABSTRACT
Most owners and managers of commercial and industrial facilities recognize the value of using interval energy information to allocate costs to building users and fine-tune building operations, but find that installation costs are very high in existing buildings. Some of the most promising technological developments in the submetering world are centered on the use of wireless devices to gather data from the meters, communicate it to a central data acquisition location, and forward the interval data to a remote server using wireless Web networks. This entry examines some of the key elements of wireless energy information and control networks and provides an overview of important underlying wireless infrastructures. Particular emphasis is placed on using “mesh” radio networks to communicate raw meter data within a building or campus and using GSM/general packet radio service (GPRS) cellular networks for long-haul communications.
