ABSTRACT

Being considered a prime commodity, electricity is almost universally available. Electric metering system has been implemented in various ways and in various circumstances although in today's times improvement of such has just started to be established especially on highly urbanized zones where high rise buildings al-c constructed. The Automatic Metering and Billing System {AMBS] [l}-{9] has mutually exclusive benefits to the consumer, leaser of commercial buildings and apartment owner, and the Utility Companies as well. Many years ago traditional electromechanical meters have been the instrument used by electric utility companies for residential and commercial power consumption in Nigeria. As the deregulation of the generation and distribution of power progress, the price of electricity will becomes increasingly competitive. Consumers also demand for better customer service, higher power quality, highly energy measurement accuracy and more timely data leads to different types of metering, ie static energy metering, hybrid metering, multiple tariff(variable rate) metering and demand metering [3]. Electric utility companies are forced to find solutions that will result to a more sophisticated energy measurement method that give greater information on the population's power consumption. Recently, one of the technological barriers faced by electronic energy meters is producing highly accurate, low-cost electronic meters.