Natural gas systems, similarly to the rest of energy systems, are evolving towards a highly technified structure where high level of metering devices, monitoring and communication activities, are calling to play the starring role. EU countries started the replacement of the traditional gas meters with smart devices in 2012, but the massive rollout is still on going. This paper presents a review on the smart meter devices for the natural gas sector that are available in the market. An overview on the existing smart technologies and their peculiarities will be presented and sensor technical characteristics will be highlighted. Furthermore, the needs of these new technologies and the natural gas communication infrastructure will be explored. On the other side, existing barriers that prevent their suitable deployment of such devices will be analyzed. Finally, their potential evolution and future application will be briefly outlined.
1st Mosharaka International Conference on Emerging Applications of Electrical Engineering (MIC-ElectricApps 2020)
Congress
2020 Global Congress on Electrical Engineering (GC-ElecEng 2020), 4-6 September 2020, Valencia, Spain
Pages
--1
Topics
Intelligent Systems for Smart Cities Sensors for Smart Cities
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{1162ElecEng2020,
title={Enabling the natural gas system as smart infrastructure: Metering technologies for customer applications},
author={Lina Montuori, and Manuel Alcazar-Ortega, and Carlos Vargas-Salgado, and Irene Mansó Borràs},
booktitle={2020 Global Congress on Electrical Engineering (GC-ElecEng 2020)},
year={2020},
pages={--1},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
