A Study on Intelligent Metering Platform Based on Cloud Computing

To meet the needs of intelligent metering platform in the future, the current status of metering automation system and problems have been described and a new system solutions based on cloud computing is presents in this paper. The feasibility and necessity of cloud computing applications in the intelligent metering platform are analyzed. A distributed cloud computing method is proposed in the light of massive electric data and a massive electric data cloud computing platform based on Hadoop is built. In this platform, virtualization technology is used to get the unified organization for various types of heterogeneous hardware and software, while he HDFS and HBase technologies are used to get the efficient distributed storage and management for massive and MapReduce technology is used to get distributed paralleled processing for user service and resource scheduling. Now, the new intelligent metering platform has practical applications, third-party test results show that most of the functions the system meet the requirement in the future smart metering platform.