Review on AMI technology for Smart Meter

Smart Meter is an advance meter which measures electricity, gas & water consumption and gives more detailed information than a traditional meter. Implementation of AMI software into these meters will give variety of controls, facilities and features. In this work, customer service benefits such as managing demand response, flexible billing cycle, pricing structure, distributed network management, AMI standards, cost estimate and communication infrastructure of AMI with respect to Indian protocols are discussed regarding electricity measurement only.