• Dranetz-BMI

Power Monitoring System- Signature System

The Signature System™ from Dranetz_BMI is a flexible platform for electric power system monitoring. In addition to a full range of power quantity and quality measurement features, the Signature System provides a host of robust and fault-tolerant information management capabilities, alarming and notification, "in-the-box" data storage and visualisation features, and compatibility with a variety of standard communication protocols and media.
Features & Highlights
The Signature System InfoNode ® interfaces with a variety of meters and monitoring devices including our proprietary DataNodes and third-party instruments. This feature is of great value to users with previously installed meters and energy management systems. An important new interface provides support for the GE kV meter. This expands the Signature System's capabilities by adding revenue metering, real cost-of-service measurement, and complex billing and totalisation analysis.
GE kV Meter Interface
Quantities collected by the Info Node:·

• 3 Phase Energy (watt hours);
• 3 Phase Alternate Energy Measure(user selects VAR hours or VA hours);
• 3 Phase Peak Active Power Demand;
• 3 Phase Peak Alternate Power Demand(user selects VAR or VA); 
• 3 Phase "Instantaneous" Active Power; 
• 3 Phase "Instantaneous" Alternate Power(user selects VAR or VA); 
• Phase Voltages;
• Phase Currents.

For energy and demand, users can control the frequency of saving data. For power, voltage, and current, both the sampling and aggregation rate can be specified. Sampling is the rate at which the meter is polled for data, while aggregation is the rate at which min-avg. max samples are stored in the database. The GE kV meter supports an option for collecting interval data over long periods of time.