Commercial & Industrial Electricity: Versatile Metering For Demanding Applications
Commercial & Industrial Electricity: Versatile Metering For Demanding Applications
The Aclara kV2c meter family is one of the most widely accepted ANSI®
commercial and industrial meters with over 2 million units deployed in the
field since its introduction. The robust revenue-grade meter design is based
on Aclara’s cutting edge technology that provides high accuracy and reliability.
The Aclara kV2c product family includes 2 models to provide the ultimate in
flexibility and customer choice, including a polyphase product available for
600V applications.
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RELIABLE METERING INTEGRITY OF SUPPLY
In this dynamic time of regulatory scrutiny and customer Having a partner that can provide assurance in supply is
engagement, you can be assured of the product and the critical when a utility begins a mass deployment of meters.
company behind the product. We have ANSI and ISO Aclara’s process focus and rigor around supply chain
certified labs to ensure that our product design and excellence minimizes the risk to the utility, giving them
manufacturing processes yield a robust product. confidence to manage installation crews and provide
accurate scheduling to customers.
Our testing procedures go well beyond the ANSI and IEC
requirements for which we design to, including some of the BROAD COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT
most aggressive internal standards. We now have included The KV2 family has been designed to allow for the
world-class Radio Frequency (RF) communications expertise interchangeability of AMR/AMI modules and cover the
to ensure that our meter products are hardened to broadest range of possible AMI communication
withstand even the harshest of RF environments without technologies including RF Mesh, Cellular, Power Line and
sacrificing the quality or integrity of the metrology or the Ethernet. Modules can be added at the Aclara factory,
communications technology. after the fact, or replaced with another compatible
module if the meter is redeployed
ACCURATE & DEPENDABLE
With an accuracy class of 0.2%, the Aclara KV2 family of
meters provides outstanding capabilities for accuracy.
Combined with the low starting watts, the utility can
have confidence in the metered value and measured
electricity usage.
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kV2c+
AMI/AMR Communication for Extreme Conditions
FEATURES & BENEFITS
The kV2c+ comes equipped with a more robust power
supply to accommodate the additional power requirements
of today’s AMI communications. This model is also available • The kV2c+ offers the
with a 57 – 120V auto-ranging power supply for low voltage following features &
applications or a 600V power supply for 3-phase 3-wire 600 benefits in addition to
volt distribution applications those offered with the
kV2c:
RELIABILITY
-- Enhanced power
The kV2c+ Revenue Guard option board powers the meter supply to support a
even when the A phase voltage is lost; any available line-to- variety of AMI technology
line or line-to-neutral voltage will be used. Revenue Guard
-- 57-120V auto-ranging power supply for
Plus softswitch enhances Revenue Guard. It preserves
low voltage applications
billing integrity when a phase voltage is lost on a 4 wire wye
service by converting the 3 element meter to “2 ½” element -- Ability to serve 600V applications
operation. Even with a lost phase voltage, Revenue Guard -- Revenue Guard option preserves billing
Plus provides accurate revenue metering. integrity when a phase voltage is lost
-- Available in Switchboard form (Z base)
MeterMate
Full featured, Secure Metering Software
Aclara’s innovative MeterMate™ software suite enables meter
administrators to easily configure Aclara’s meter family. Each
software component in the MeterMate suite is optimized to
address the different aspects of a meter’s life cycle.
MeterMate program creation software enables the user to
effortlessly configure the meter’s basic and advanced
functionality, ranging from creating a simple demand program
to setting up the meter display to configuring the meter’s I/O
and alerts. With MeterMate reading and programming
software, MM Comm, a user can read, program and perform
real-time instrumentation and power quality monitoring on a FEATURES & BENEFITS
meter, via a variety of different communication methods:
local OPTOCOM™, remote telephone, RS-232/485 and IP
• One software suite to configure and read from the
communications.
Aclara portfolio of meters: kV family, I-210 family
The MeterMate software also supports many functions and SGM3xxx family
such as: • Supports the ANSI C12.19 communication protocol
• Analysis of load profile data • Multiple methods to communicate with meters:
• Firmware upgrades USB & RS232 OPTOCOM, RS485, Modem
• Exporting of meter data to the MV-90 HHF format • Modular configuration workflow that enable the
reuse of frequently used configuration settings
• Configuration for automatic remote meter reading
and measurements
• Direct table reads
• Various reports to display information for meter
• Conversion of meter configuration to an XML file format for management, auditing, billing and monitoring
AMI over-the-air configuration power quality
• Comparison of a configuration from the database to a • Command line interface and batch-control enabling
configured meter automated and scheduled meter operations
• Opening and closing the meter service switch • Configurable role-based access control security
• Importing and exporting of load profile data, event log data,
configurations and security codes
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AMI Integrations
FACTORY INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION OPTIONS FOR kV2c/kV2c+
Aclara’s kV2c and kV2c+ meters are integrated with a wide variety of AMI communication modules. Aclara is constantly
seeking to provide diverse solutions suitable for each customer’s AMI needs. The following table summarizes current
factory installed communication options.
Technical Specifications
General The kV2c with no softswitches is a bi-directional coincident demand meter
• Revenue Meter Accumulators 5 for measurements
Multifunction Meter • AC Instrumentation
• Communications Wh Delivered, Received, Net, or Total (with or
Measures without harmonics) and Frequency
• ±0.2% at standard test points for energy and
Accuracy demand (typical) Coincident 2 values for each demand from demand list
• Meets ANSI C12.20 Class 0.2 Power Quality Diagnostics and Cautions, momentary values
• Voltage: 120 to 480 volts, Monitoring Site Genie, Cautions (8), Diagnostics, Errors
kV2c+ options:
– 57-1230 volts Real Data Voltage, Current, and Frequency
Ratings – 600 volts
• Current: Class 20, Class 200, Class 320 Recording Self Reads recording
• Frequency: 50 or 60 Hz
Display 75 Items
• Voltage: 120-480V (+10/ -20%)
• With Enhanced Power Supply: 120-480V Data Prior Reset
Operating Range (+10/ -20%)
• Frequency: rated (5%) # Outages, # Demand Resets, # Programmed,
Logging
• Temperature -40°C to 85 C° # Comm sessions
• Durable one piece LEXANTM cover Real-time price available if I/O board or AMI
RTPs
• Rugged single action reset lever module present
Mechanical Design • Magnetic switch activates Alternates Alternate
and Site Genie displays Multifunction Meter
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H Switch Expanded Flash Memory (20-channel, 384 kB) 5 Min 438.0 102.0 50.6 26.0
K Switch kVA – Power Factor, kvar and kVA measures 30 Min 2628.0 612.0 304.0 156.0
R Switch Basic Recording (4-channel, 64 KB) • 2 Form C Outputs. Outputs programmable as:
– Pulse Data
T Switch Time of Use) – Load Control
– Diagnostic and Caution Alerts
Fast Voltage Event Monitor and Log (sag and swell, MIO – Multifunction I/O Board – EOI
V Switch • 4 Form A or C Inputs for recording
1 to 65k cycles)
and Totalization
Waveform Capture (70 samples sets – 6 measures • 6 Form A Outputs
W Switch • RTP Input
per set – V & I per phase))
X Switch Expanded Recording (20 channel, 192 kB)) • Call in during outage with C Softswitch and
battery
Z Switch Totalization • Communications up to 2400B
• Suitable for outdoor installation
Recording • Wide temperature range -20 to +75C
T1 – Telephone Modem • Line sharing, up to 5 T1 modems on a phone line
• No option board required since recording is a softswitch-enabled function. However, a • MV90 compatible
battery is reuired to maintain time during power outages. • 3 phone numbers
• Supports on-line read data with MeterMates
• Activating recording adds time stamping to the meter’s logs (adding TOU is an alternative • Call-in and call-out windows
way to add time stamping). • RS-232 communications to 9600B
• External modems or wireless modems
• Recording memory is configurable; the number of channels and length of channels • Simple Serial/RS-232 drive for devices within
RSX – Serial Communications Board 50 feet
is programmable.
• Simple Serial/RS-485 drive for devices within
• Adding recording also adds 12 self reads. 3500 feet
• No Load Profile (R or X) Softswitch is required for Self Reads • Preserves billing integrity when A-Phase voltage
Revenue Guard Board* is lost*
Types of Recording • Load Profile
• Data:
– Maximum value in interval Security Log
– Minimum value in interval • Total number of outages
– End of interval valuel
• Cumulative power outage duration.
R Switch (Basic Recording, 64 kB)
• Date & Time of last demand reset (TOU only).
Basic Recording - 4 Channels of data
Days of Recording by Interval and Channels (4 Ch). • Total number of times programmed.
1 Ch 2 Ch 3 Ch 4 Ch • Date & Time of last RTP
5 Min 73.0 36.7 27.3 20.0 • Date & Time of last programmed
30 Min 438.0 220.0 164.0 120.0 • Date & Time last calibrated
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• Active, Reactive, Phasor, Distortion, Arithmetic Apparent and Vector Apparent Power with • Up to 20 values can be recorded with up to 4 totalized channels, including 4 external
and without harmonics (also by quadrant and phase i.e., delivered, received, lagging, and input channels for recording values from external devices ) min, max, sampled, and interval
leading; phase A, B, C). Unidirectional (delivered plus received or lagging plus leading) and count recording)
detented measurement (delivered minus received or lagging minus leading) • High demand alert and end of demand interval output pulses
• Automatic Service Detection, Installation Check, Circuit Monitoring and Tamper Detection
– Circuit Diagnostics and Cautions Diagnostics and Cautions
• Total number of OPTOCOM communications • ANSI C12.18 – Protocol Specification for ANSI Type II optical ports.
• Date & time of last OPTOCOM communication • ANSI C12.19 – Utility Industry End Device Data Tables
• Number of EEPROM reads and writes • ANSI C12.20 for 0.2 and 0.5 accuracy class meters
• FCC Class B emissions (Class A for kV2c+)
• ANSI C12.21 for Modem Communication
Aclara is a world-class supplier of smart infrastructure solutions (SIS) to more than 800 water, gas, and electric utilities globally. Aclara SIS offerings include smart
meters and other field devices, advanced metering infrastructure and software and services that enable utilities to predict and respond to conditions, leverage their
distribution networks effectively and engage with their customers. Aclara is owned by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners.
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