Patent ID: 11937022
Assignee: EI ELECTRONICS LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 23:
24. A system for authenticating a user of a plurality of electronic power meters, comprising:
at least one electronic power meter, each meter comprising:
a metering module configured for measuring or calculating parameters of waveforms of voltages and currents of an electrical power distribution system;
a processing module configured for processing data obtained using the metering module and administering operational features of the meter; and
a communication module for transmitting data to and receiving data from at least one remote server over a network; and
the at least one remote server for enabling access to at least one electronic power meter by authorized users and preventing access by non-authorized users to a portion of the operational features, the remote server configured to receive a request to access at least one meter and user credentials, to determine the authorized user based on the user credentials and a preselected mode of communication of the determined authorized user, and to transmits a code to at least one external device associated to the determined authorized user,
wherein upon receipt of the code at the at least one remote server from the determined authorized user, the at least one remote server verifies the received code and grants the authorized user remote access to the portion of the operational features of the at least one electronic power meter for a pre-determined time interval.