CENTRON® Meter

Product Description

The CENTRON meter is a solid-state, single-phase residential electricity meter that provides utilities with unparalleled digital accuracy, reliability, serviceability and cost-effectiveness. The CENTRON meter is one of the most adaptable meters on the residential market, providing an array of communications and application options to meet current and future business needs.

Features & Benefits

The CENTRON meter was engineered specifically for the widely varied needs of the residential market. The CENTRON C1S, the basic platform for all CENTRON meters, is a solid-state electricity meter that measures single-phase energy consumption. The solid-state CENTRON meter is a breakthrough metering platform designed to grow and change with the utility industry. With its low starting watts and low watts lost, the CENTRON meter captures more energy consumption than was measured in the past by electromechanical meters.

When you deploy the CENTRON meter, you can:

Measure the energy usage of your residential customers more accurately and reliably than ever before, at a cost that makes sense in the residential market.

Bill residential customers for the energy they are actually consuming—no more, no less.

Deploy a metering platform that will be ready for an automatic meter reading (AMR) system when you are.

Reduce operational costs by updating aging electromechanical meters that are quickly becoming more difficult and costly to maintain.

Reduce cases of energy theft and revenue loss due to meter tampering. The CENTRON meter tamper resistance features include measuring energy even if the meter is inverted and detecting when the meter is removed from a live socket.

Choose the meter reading communication protocol that meets the needs of you and your customers when you are ready to deploy an AMR system. The CENTRON meter’s flexible format allows the communications functions to be installed without disturbing the finely-tuned metrology. Options are available for network communications, PLC and an array of radio frequency (RF) protocols.

Adapt meters easily and cost-effectively to meet the needs of your customers. The modular architecture of the CENTRON meter allows new snap-in personality modules to be installed in the meter without disturbing the finely calibrated metrology board in the lower, measurement portion of the meter. Optional snap-in personality modules include demand, time-of-use (TOU), load profile and various communication protocol options.

Additional Resources

Case Studies
	ChoiceConnect Fixed Network and 100G Gas ERT Modules Offer Up Powerful Combination for Montana-Dakota Utilities
	Itron Hosting and Software Solutions Save Imperial Irrigation District $1 Million in First Year of Implementation
	Fixed Network Provides Advanced Metering Functionality for Tucson Electric Power
	Union Power Cooperative Goes Solid-State to Save
	City of Colton Improves Customer Service with Itron AMR Solutions
	South Hadley Goes Solid-State - Itron electricity meters provide immediate return on investment
	Camden Pairs Itron Meters, Automated Meter Reading for Impressive Results - City gains efficiency and additional revenues
	Solid-State Meters Increase Efficiency, Save Money for Niagara Mohawk
	Kootenai County Launches First Round of CENTRON® Meters with DSCI's TWACS® Module
	City of Athens Electric Utility Puts CENTRON® Meter Through the Hoops
	South Central Power Company Upgrades its AMR Program to Solid-State and Power Line Carrier
	Northeast Utilities Chooses R300 Demand Meters for Flex AMR Project
	New Brunswick Power Selects Itron AMR Solution
	Hydro-Quebec Pilots New Approval Process Using the Itron CENTRON® Meter
	The Value of AMR Technology: Improving performance by implementing Itron meters and mobile collection

Spec Sheets
	CENTRON Aclara TWACS EMT-3C EMT-3C-MP Module (PDF, 177.8 KB)
	CENTRON C12.19 C1STI, C1SLI (PDF, 105.9 KB)
	Centron C1B ABNT Meter MXCA Spec Sheet - English (PDF, 171.4 KB)
	Centron C1B Meter AUNZ Spec Sheet - English (PDF, 588.5 KB)
	CENTRON C1B Meter MXCA Spec Sheet - Spanish (PDF, 163.5 KB)
	CENTRON C1B Meter SAM Spec Sheet - Spanish (PDF, 167.5 KB)
	CENTRON C1S Meter (PDF, 353.8 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter ASIA Spec Sheet - English (PDF, 281.5 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter AUNZ Spec sheet - English - UK (PDF, 284.4 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter CARB Spec sheet - English (PDF, 278.8 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter CARB Spec sheet - Spanish (PDF, 278.6 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter MXCA Spec sheet - English (PDF, 274.4 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter MXCA Spec sheet - Spanish (PDF, 276.5 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter SAM Spec Sheet - English (PDF, 275.9 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter SAM Spec sheet - Portuguese (PDF, 287.6 KB)
	Centron C1S Meter SAM Spec Sheet - Spanish (PDF, 290.6 KB)
	CENTRON C1S Transformer-Rated (PDF, 354.8 KB)
	CENTRON C1SC Meter (PDF, 354.6 KB)
	CENTRON C1SRC (PDF, 353.7 KB)
	CENTRON C2BR ABNT Meter SAM Spec Sheet - English (PDF, 276.2 KB)
	CENTRON C2BR ABNT Meter SAM Spec Sheet - Portuguese (PDF, 293.9 KB)
	CENTRON Cannon MCT-410cL Module (PDF, 177.6 KB)
	CENTRON Cannon MCTL (PDF, 380.5 KB)
	CENTRON CN1S Meter (PDF, 355.3 KB)
	CENTRON CN1S Meter MXCA Spec Sheet - Spanish (PDF, 224.5 KB)
	CENTRON Datamatic FIREFLY Module (PDF, 175.8 KB)
	CENTRON GPRS SmartMeter (PDF, 350.3 KB)
	CENTRON Hunt’s TS1 TS2 Module (PDF, 177.4 KB)
	CENTRON Polyphase Meter MXCA Spec Sheet - Spanish (PDF, 206.1 KB)
	J CENTRON ASIA Spec Sheet - English - AS (PDF, 235.8 KB)
	CENTRON R300CD/CD3 (PDF, 382.3 KB)
	CENTRON C1SR R300 Meter (PDF, 355.1 KB)

Brochures
	CENTRON Residential Meter (PDF, 456.8 KB)

Product Accessories

CENTRON Communication Module Accessories

The CENTRON® meter accepts an array of flexible communication modules that adapt as your needs expand and change to meet all of your residential metering system needs. The interchangeable personality modules allow simple system expansion and easy upgrades.