Patent ID: 7999696

Claim:
An electrical metering system capable of performing multiple metering functions, collecting data, and wirelessly providing the collected metering data to a utility operator, the electrical metering system comprising: at least one computing device for initiating a request for data; a first modem for connecting the computing device to an infrastructure; and at least one electric meter comprising: a digital sampler configured for sampling voltage and current waveforms; at least one processor configured to collect the voltage and current data and generate power consumption data from the sampled voltage and current waveforms, wherein the at least one processor is configured to act as a server for the at least one electric meter and is further configured for presenting the collected and generated data in the form of web pages; and a wireless embedded communications device coupled to the at least one processor and for wirelessly connecting the at least one electric meter to the infrastructure, wherein the wireless embedded communications device receives a request from the computing device and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated metering data to the computing device initiating the request, wherein the computing device accesses the collected and generated data via a software program.