One of the challenges within the utilities sector is the development of robust, scalable and low-cost methods for the remote management of customers usage and billing. Considering the advances related to the Internet of Things (IoT), an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is the basis for utilities smart management. This AMI bring together the automation of remote metering and communication infrastructures with the processing and analysis of distributed data using advanced techniques and cloud computing. This paper presents the development of an AMI for the smart management of natural gas industrial customers using IoT. The AMI architecture is based on the LoRaWAN communication for remote metering and a cloud-based smart management system including supervisory control, continuous monitoring, anomalies detection and alarm notification. Experimental results shown the LoRaWAN fulfilled the communication requirements for industrial natural gas metering and the smart management system can analyze historical data and detect anomalies in gas consumption

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工业天然气智能管理的先进计量基础设施

公用事业部门面临的挑战之一是开发强大、可扩展且低成本的方法来远程管理客户的使用和计费。考虑到物联网 (IoT) 的进步，高级计量基础设施 (AMI) 是公用事业智能管理的基础。该 AMI 将远程计量和通信基础设施的自动化与使用先进技术和云计算的分布式数据处理和分析结合在一起。本文介绍了使用物联网对天然气工业客户进行智能管理的 AMI 的开发。AMI 架构基于用于远程计量的 LoRaWAN 通信和基于云的智能管理系统，包括监督控制、连续监控、异常检测和警报通知。