The Household data automatic reading is significant in the process of power system information. It is also an urgent problem that power industries want to solve because the accuracy and real time of meter data copy affect the power system information level, management decisions, and economic benefits. Recently there have been many reports concerning the automatic meter reading. In this paper a tiered pricing meter based on ZigBee is designed for implementing the ladder tariff policy, and at the same time, taking into account of a power company’s measure of time-of-use price. As wireless ZigBee nodes, the meters can join the ZigBee wireless automatic meter system quickly, which greatly reduces operating costs and power consumption, improves the efficiency of meter reading system, and avoids the problems of construction of cable wiring system
