METERING EQUIPMENT, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING THE METERING EQUIPMENT, PROGRAM FOR REALIZING FUNCTION OF THE SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the versatility and the cost reduction of a system by providing metering equipment for weighing various fluids with a means connectable to an open network such as the Internet. SOLUTION: This metering equipment 20 has, for example, a gas meter and a communication function for transmitting gas-metered data and security data of the gas meter to an external device through the Internet. The metering equipment 20 further has a router function for connecting various metering devices such as a water meter, a PC, various digital household electric appliances, etc. A server 41 of a service provider can acquire information from the metering equipment 20 or can input an operation signal of each device for the metering equipment 20. The presentation of the acquired information and an operation input to the device can be performed by a homepage held by the server. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO