Patent ID: 8046603

Claim:
A network real-time electricity monitoring system comprising: at least one power line communicating and AC power monitoring device sensing power status from an AC power in a power line, transforming the power status into network packets and modulating the network packets to be coupled into the AC power to transmit the network packets through the power line so as to transmit the network packets through the power line, wherein the power line communicating and AC power monitoring device comprises: a power status detector electronically connected to the power line carrying the AC power with the network packets to detect signals of the AC power in the power line, transforming the signals of the AC power into digitized power signals and outputting the digitized power signals; and a power line communicating module electronically connected to a processing unit of the power status detector to electronically connect to one power line, transforming the digitized power signals into the network packets and coupling the network packets into the AC power in the power line; a power line network device electronically connected to the power line carrying the AC power with the network packets, retrieving the network packets in the AC power and sending the network packets to a network; and a monitoring computer electronically connected to the power line network device over the network to retrieve the network packets from the AC power and extract the power status from the network packets.