The times are progressing and the products are constantly updating. Therefore, the emergence of smart meters is also the need of development. Compared with the old-fashioned meters, the intelligent meters have high-tech features such as high-precision measurement, intelligent deduction of fees, real-time inquiry of electricity price, electricity quantity memory, freezing of reading time, balance alarm, remote transmission of information, etc., which can avoid human errors to the greatest extent and effectively prevent electricity theft. The manufacturer of the meter box introduced that smart meters have many advantages.

Benefit 1: real time query of electricity cost

The citizens who pay the electricity fee with one card often find that the card has no money or the balance is not enough to deduct when the electricity department issues a reminder of the arrears. After the construction of the electricity information collection system, when the electricity fee paid by the citizens in the one card is about to run out, the electricity industry department will send a SMS reminder to the citizens in the form of telephone or SMS to avoid the users' arrears.

Benefit 2: check the power consumption in a certain period

With the power consumption information acquisition system, it can realize the real-time monitoring of the power consumption of each household in the area covered by the system. The daily or even hourly power consumption of the household is recorded in the system. Through the network, citizens can easily find the power consumption up to any day, and can also query the power consumption of a certain period of time in a certain day.

Advantage 3: find out the big power consumers

Some citizens are used to keeping the electric appliances such as water heater and TV on for a long time. By querying the electricity consumption in different periods of time, citizens can find out how much electricity these appliances consume in the period when they are plugged in but not in use, so as to change their own electricity consumption habits, and also measure the actual electricity consumption of each kind of electric appliance in the family, so as to achieve the purpose of electricity saving by "taking the right medicine".