Accuracy confirms customer relations

The Kamstrup smart meter is accurate and immune to magnetism due to the shunt measuring principle.

Accuracy is crucial to all parties
On the one hand the meter is the cash register for the utility, the single device that provides the documentation necessary for billing the consumer. On the other hand it is the device for keeping the good relation to the consumer, to whom the utility might want to sell other services.

If the meter is accurate, it will strengthen the vital bond of trust between utility and customer.

Go safely with the shunt principle
Smart meters can have different measuring principles. The Kamstrup smart meter uses the so called shunt principle. The shunt is a resistor of precisely known resistance; hence the voltage drop across the shunt can be used for calculating the exact current flowing through it.

The relationship between the energy consumer and the energy distributor charging the consumer is a relationship built on trust. The consumer must have confidence in the measuring method.

Accuracy is a gain for both distributor and consumer.

The shunt itself is a metal alloy which possesses the great advantage of being uninfluenced by a rise in temperature. Larger amounts of energy generate higher temperature which again has an impact on the resistance.

Furthermore the metal alloy shunt is immune to magnetism and thus needs no further protection against magnetic influences. It will have no effect to place a strong magnet – deliberately or by accident – near the Kamstrup meter.