TCP/IP Interface For Electricity Meter – Email Metering
- Designed and implemented a product to interface to Email Metering's electronic Q4 electricity meter to allow communications over a TCP/IP connection.
- Responsible for complete hardware and firmware development.
- Project used a Rabbit microprocessor and Realtek Ethernet controller.
- Implemented TCP/IP communications using Rabbit processor drivers
- Firmware written in C.
- Project included full Windows software in C++ to allow the TCP/IP board to be configured in production and in the field.
- Prepared all documentation and test procedures to enable volume production.
- Liaised with Email Metering's engineers to perform integration testing
- Performed extensive field testing – virtually no bugs found and as a result Email Metering and it's clients were extremely pleased.