GSM Based Automatic Energy Meter Reading and Instant Billing System

Abstract

Now-a-days, electricity energy demands requested from down-stream sectors in a smart grid constantly increase. And that is ultimately increasing the load demand on the distribution centres. With this increasing demand on smart grid the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has turn into the initial ever-present and permanent platform for performing computational operations. Power theft is one of the most significant concerns connected to the implementation strategy of smart grid. The utility companies lose more than $15 billion every year due to power theft around the world based on the estimation data gathered. The Household data automatically reading is important in the process of power system information. It is also an urgent problem that power industries want to solve because the exactness and real time of meter data copy have an effect on the power system information level, management decisions, and economic benefits. To take necessary precautionary actions against these issues the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) technology is proposed. The energy meter is designed for reading electrical energy consumed in units and in rupees to display on an LCD screen to the user. This data is also provided to the electrical department using GSM technology for billing purposes. In this proposed system, the consumer will get his energy consumption data on real time basis on a LCD display. The same data is sent through GSM modem to the electricity department via SMS. An Arduino UNO is interfaced to the energy meter to get the Watt Hour pulses. The Arduino UNO then processes these pulses according the program written in it, to calculate the units consumed and cost involved. The same data will be sent to the electricity department through the GSM modem via SMS after command given by the Arduino UNO.