What is TOD Energy Meter?

Answer 1

Nowadays power cuts are happening in the peak usage timing such as from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. This is happening because the power requirement in these times is very high as compare to other off-peak timings. Unnecessary usage must be avoided to eliminate this problem. In many countries electricity providers are implemented TOD based energy meter to reduce the usage of electricity by increasing rates in Peak hours and reducing rates is Off-peak hours. Time of Day metering (TOD), also known as Time of Usage (TOU) or Seasonal Time of Day (SToD), metering involves dividing the day, month and year into tariff slots and with higher rates at peak load periods and low tariff rates at off-peak load periods. While this can be used to automatically control usage on the part of the customer (resulting in automatic load control), it is often simply the customers responsibility to control his own usage, or pay accordingly (voluntary load control). This also allows the utilities to plan their transmission infrastructure appropriately.

Answer 2

TOD - Time of Day meter. It keeps the power parameters like wattage, current and voltage in memory for last previous predeterminded time, say last 30 minutes. One can extract the data and see the parameters for last 30 minutes.

Answer 3

Time-of-day is a meter that records demand, time, and energy usage of electricity.