mexican case: using auto-management system · 2019. 9. 2. · • -mexico has 33 million of...

Mexican Case:

Using Auto-Management System

Patent Register in Mexico and in the Rest of World. India Patent Pending

The United Mexican States, commonly known as Mexico, is a federal constitutional republic in North America

•Language: Spanish

•Independence declared from Spain 1810

•Bordered on the north by the United States;

on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean;

on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea;

and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.

• Mexico covers almost 2 million square kilometers,

is the fifth-largest country in the Americas

and the 14th largest independent nation in the world.

• Mexico's estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country.

•-Mexico has one Utility CFE Federal Commission of Electricity.


CFE Characteristics

• -CFE has 177 generation plants with capacity of 50,200 MW• -Mexico has 33 million of electricity meters the 20% are poly-

phase meters.• -The average consume of the 80% of the user is 150

kWh/month, 5 kWh /day, which represent the 20% of the income for the utility.

• CFE has 33 Millions of electromechanical meters

• 12,000 readers.

• Billing process each 2 month, average billing 300 kWh

• Each year grow 1.3 million of users.

• 12% No technical loses.

• Few CFE office to receive the payments and short labor hours.

• The readers are the main tamper causes.

• During several years CFE was looking for the best technology which adapt to Mexican characteristics.


CFE Characteristics




• CFE has 33 Millions of electromechanical meters

• 12,000 readers.


• Each year grow 1.3 million of user.



• The readers are the main tamper causes.


Mexican users Characteristics

• 80% users with low Income.

• 80% of users low consume of energy 3-5 kWh/day.

• Pay of income is per week.

• Long distance to make the payments


CFE Characteristics




• 33 Millions of electromechanical meters

• 12,000 readers.


• Each year grow 1.3 million of user.



• The readers are the main tamper cause.


Mexican users Characteristics

• 80% users with low Income.

• 80% of users low consume of energy 3-5 kWh/day.

• Pay of income is per week.

• Long distance to make the payments

For these reasons IUSA has developed a system which covers Mexican requirements and we think that could cover Indian requirements…


IUSA is an innovative company, provides the technological solutions that promote the efficient use of electricity. Our goal is to improve the service quality and diminish the time that takes to measure electric and water usage.

One of the most recent advances is the creation of an Auto-Management Metering System that works with a smart card to measure the consumption of electricity and water.

This system has the objective of diminishing the financial and operating costs of energy distribution among companies. The system facilitates a better consumption and control for the consumer, as well as allowing him to more payment options.

IUSA’s Auto-Management Metering System is composed by a solid state electricity meter and a contact less smart card that works in a two-way communication.

After 35 years of success in the electricity meter market in Mexico, IUSA is now sharing its experience with electricity utility company throughout the World, offering a new technological solutions in solid state electricity meters


Auto Management System

Benefits for the Utility

• Eliminates reading cost $

• Eliminates the billing cost $

• Eliminates the connection and disconnection cost $

• The Utility doesn't lose the contact with the user, because the meter data updates each time that the user recharges the smart card

• Detects tampering, using the management system based on When ? and How much? the user buy energy and consumes it.

•The meter is installed in the same base of the actual meters, it doesn't require any preparation or to add a new communication system cost

•The management system can transfer the meter’s data to the billing system of the utility, if they require it.


Auto Management Metering System

Benefits for the users.

• The users CONTROL the payment and consumption of energy in base of their income

•This system generates the culture of “if you save energy you save money”

• This system can avoid surprises of high payment amounts in the energy bill

•The user can buy energy from low quantity of money.

•The system is very easy to use.

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Features

•Contact less Smart Cards

•Two way communication

•Debit and Credit options for the users

•Friendly user software utility for:

•Consume Profile

•Tampering Detection

•No require billing systems

•Statistics

•Automatic or manual disconnections and connections

•Smart Card replacement

•Just one Smart Card by meter user

•High security standards for data Transfer

•Multiple energy rates can be loaded at sales points

•Multiple Operators configurable for Software Utilit y

•Operative costs saving

Database

Utility

Point of Sales

UserMeter



Pre-Payment.

1.-The meter turns on the alarm led to remind the credit is running out

2.-The user have to go to the POS to purchase energy.

3.- The POS sends information to Central Servers at Utility so they can authorize the sell of energy

4.- The user come back with new credit charged in his smartcard and discharges the purchase of energy in the meter

Both operations modes (Postpayment and Prepayment) can be configured by the smartcard



Post-Payment

1.-At the end of each calendar month, the user have to put his smartcard on the meter in order to get the consume of the last month.

2.-The user have to go to the near POS to know the payment amount for the last month of the electricity service

3.-The user now have two options: he can pay and continue with the electricity service, or he can wait for the programmed limit date of payment and the meter cuts the electricity service

4.-After the user makes the payment at the POS, the user have to put the smartcard on his meter and wait for the meter to confirm the payment and it should not cut the electricity supply



Main Features

•Communication between meter and CONTACTLESS smartca rd

The auto management Electricity System of IUSA is a two way system when the smartcard is on the meter to:

1.- Discharge the energy credit (Pre-Payment) or to confirm the pay of energy (Post-Payment)

2.- Meter can transmits its information to the smartcard in order that the user can take it with him to the POS to buy energy without cost for the utility

•Only one smartcard for each meter (replaced if you lost) .

The user can't discharge energy in other meter, each smartcard has only one identity to communicate with only one meter.

•Unload debit steps configurable .

In order to manage it in a better way, the energy consumption and user’s purchases, it is possible to configured the steps in which ones the meter discounts or unloads the purchase debit from the smart card.

Calendar Meter

Each meter has a calendar inside to record recharges dates, cuts of energy services, monthly KWh, maximum demands timetables, energy balance, etc.

•Optic Port.

Optic port, used for, meter reading, connection and disconnections, date and time configuration, and test mode of meter.

•Day light saving time

Capacity to change/return automatically to summer time



•Recover the last sale.

If the user lost his smartcard, can recover the last sale at the POS, in this case the user never loses his money.

•Connect and disconnect the energy supply with the s ame smartcard

Energy supply manual: The user can connect and disconnect any time he wants.

Energy supply automatic: The meter will connect the energy supply when its has credit and the meter will disconnect the energy supply when its has not more credit.

•Warnings for energy recharges .

The system can configure a warning level for each user so the led turns on in the meter, when the user needs to recharge more energy to his meter.

• Display Screens

The screens on line are: current, voltage, power factor, frequency, disconnections and inversions of the meter. The utility can select all or some of them to show on the display.

•Test mode.

The meter can be configured in test mode to validate its functions and calibration.

•SMS consult.

The user can consult the amount of money equivalent of the energy that the meter register using a SMS service.

•All parameters above mentioned are independent for each final user and they can be configured using the smart card / changed by software at POS



ISO/IEC 14443 A Main Features.

•Mutual data communications without contact

Frequency operation: 13.56 MHz.

•Data transfer rate: 106 kBits/Seg.

•High data integrity by using bit coding,

•Integrated anti-collision protocol

•International standard protocol for communications with extensive compatibility with existing applications

RF Channel 13.56 MHz

Data Rate

106 kBits/seg

Data Integrity Granted

International Standar Interface

Smart Card





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•CFE installed several deployments and pilot trying to learn and select the best technologies related to AMR, AMI, smart meters and smart grids.

•After those AMR pilots that technical results was successful but not the economical because the cost of equipment and operation is to high to make a big deployment.

•We share with you the following comparative chart.

Advantages of the Auto-management System Vs AMR

-Low cost product $

- It doesn't require a communication network.

- It doesn’t require to cover cost to maintain the communication network.

- There is no cost for installation of the network.

- It doesn't require the emission and delivery of Invoice.

- The time of collection is reduced since the user doesn’t have to wait for

the invoice to pay it.

- The culture of the energy saving is generated due that the user is near

to the meter and this allows him to control the consumptions,

- The user can restrict the use of energy when being away from his house

by the function of manual operation through the card.

- The Electrical company can restrict the service if the user exceeds the

contracted demand but the same user it can restore it by the card

without calling to the electrical company.

- The responsibility of the cuts is of the user.

- The user could know the amount to pay without visiting the point of

sale, this can be by SMS, Internet.

- Payments can make by Internet and credit card



Disadvantages of the Auto-Management System Vs AMR

- Reading information among 1 month.

- No remote cuts or service.

- Payments cannot be domiciled.

- Detection of tamper use is after 1 month



Advantages of the Auto-management System Vs AMR

-Low cost product $

- It doesn't require a communication network.

- It doesn’t require to cover cost to maintain the communication network.

- There is no cost for installation of the network.

- It doesn't require the emission and delivery of Invoice.

- The time of collection is reduced since the user doesn’t have to wait for

the invoice to pay it.

- The culture of the energy saving is generated due that the user is near

to the meter and this allows him to control the consumptions,

- The user can restrict the use of energy when being away from his house

by the function of manual operation through the card.

- The Electrical company can restrict the service if the user exceeds the

contracted demand but the same user it can restore it by the card

without calling to the electrical company.

- The responsibility of the cuts is of the user.

- The user could know the amount to pay without visiting the point of

sale, this can be by SMS, Internet.

- Payments can make by Internet and credit card

Advantages of the AMR Vs Auto-Management System

- Reading in real time, in a periodic form

- Remote cuts or service

- Domiciled payments.

- Tamper detection in real time.



Advantages of the AMR Vs Auto-Management System

- Reading in real time, in a periodic form

- Remote cuts or service

- Domiciled payments.

- Tamper detection in real time.

Disadvantages of the AMR Vs Auto-Management System

-High product cost for user with low consume.

-Requires a communication network PLC or RF or GPRS

-Cost of maintenance of the network $

- Cost of Installation of meter Network $

- It requires the emission and delivery of invoice.

-The collection time is increased because the user must wait for

the invoice to pay it .

- The cut responsibility stays in electrical, making the consumer

feel the victim of this operation.

-This system doesn't help to energy saving since the user does not

require to approach the meter.



Cost Benefit Analysis


The Pilot deployment validates that the user requires flexibility for payment

Range of purchase Percent

$2.00 - $5.00 USD 53%

$5.01 - $10.00 USD 34%

$10.01 - $20.00 USD 11.5%

$20.01 – more 1.5%

Total 100%

The users prefer to pay in places near their home or office

-89.95% commercial stores

-10.05% Utility office

The average of recharge energy is 1 per month

Pilot project using PREPAYMENT system with smart card in Mexico

-2,500 users

-2 years of evaluation

-Poor area in Mexico with high tamper history



The system Helps to detect tampered use of energy


New deployment in Mexico

-At the beginning of 2009 CFE made a international bid to select the best technology to substitute the actual electromechanical meters and the result was this Auto-Management system.

-For this reason IUSA invested resources to manufacture 100,000 meters per week to support the requirements of change the 30 millions of meters plus the natural growing of 1 million per year .

-Meter Functions.

-Post payment meters with option of prepayment.

-Max. Demand registered per month and cut-off option.

-Max. and Min. voltage reading with cut-off option

-Load profile per month

-Detection of energy failures

-Detection of meter disconnections

-Energy balance per month

Benefits that are expected

-Important reduction cost of billing process.

-Better cash flow

-Tamper reduction for no technical losses.

-Save energy with user participation.



Questions

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Eduardo Neri

[email protected]

www.iusa.com.mx

Tank you for your Attention

Eduardo Neri

[email protected]

www.iusa.com.mx

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