BACKGROUND

Field

The present disclosure relates to power systems, and more specifically, to systems and methods for transmission of waveforms over wireless systems such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Related Art

In related art implementations, smart meters record consumption of electrical energy, and are rapidly replacing traditional electromechanical meters such as interval or time-of-use meters. Smart meters are attractive to various customer classes (residential, commercial, and industrial) because they can provide features that traditional electricity meters cannot, such as automatic meter reading, real-time or near real-time sensors, power outage notification, remote reporting, and power quality monitoring. In addition, smart meters can communicate information about energy consumption in a two-way wireless communication between the meter and the electric company, thereby facilitating both monitoring and billing. The typical smart meter is limited, however, in that it is designed to calculate only the power consumption (wattage) for an entire structure.

In related art implementations, smart meters generate voltage and power readings that are recorded as waveforms to be streamed to data processing systems. Such waveforms may also carry information regarding events, which can alert the data processing systems of anomalies or other issues with the monitored power system.

SUMMARY

With recent developments in wireless transmission systems such as LTE, it has been possible for smart meters to transmit data wirelessly. However, the costs of bandwidth of such wireless systems are more expensive in comparison to their wired counterparts. In particular, the waveforms recorded by the smart meters may be cost prohibitive to transmit wirelessly over systems such as LTE.

Example implementations described herein are directed to a waveform processing and transmission system that utilizes wireless transmissions in an efficient manner so that waveforms recorded by the smart meter can be transmitted to the data processing systems in a cost effective manner.

