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Power Monitoring And Billing System Using

IoT

Kavita Patil Anushka D,B.E,Student Bhagyashree Bhat,B.E,Student Farheen

Shariff,B.E,Student
Assistant Professor Department of ISE Department of ISE Department of ISE
Department of ISE Atria Institute Of Technology Atria Institute Of Technology Atria Institute Of Technology
Atria Institute Of Technology

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physical world to the computer-based systems using sensors
and the internet. The interconnection of these multiple
Abstract—The domestic Energy meter reading systems embedded devices will be resulting in automation in nearly all
universally exist many problems, such as difficulty in embedded devices will be resulting in automation in nearly all
construction, too narrow bandwidth, poor real time, no fields and also enabling advanced applications. This is
two way communication quickly, too low rate etc. To solve resulting in improved accuracy, efficiency and economic
above problems, this paper uses the wireless technology benefit with reduced human intervention. Since IOT is cost
for Automatic Meter Reading and billing System. This effective compared to SMS, monitoring of energy meters at
method will provide the communication between the lower cost is made possible.
Electricity Board section and the consumer section using Daily consumption reports are generated which can be
Internet of things (IOT) for transmitting the customer’s monitored through Android application or web portal. Also,
electricity consumption and bill information that is android users can pay their electric bills from their android
calculated using Arduino. The information regarding the
application. Non-android users can monitor can pay their
bill amount is communicated to the consumer via Global
bills online. This system is more reliable and accurate
System for Mobile communication. The power and billing
information is continuously transmitted by the use of readings are collected from energy meters.
internet of Things and it is monitored by the Electricity
Board section.
II.RELATED SURVEY
Keywords—Arduino Mega (microcontroller), IOT, GSM900 ,
Wi-Fi module, Web server YujunBao and Xiaoyan Jiang, “Design of electric Energy
Meter for long-distance data information transfers which
based upon GPRS”, 2009,With the popularization of Internet
I. INTRODUCTION in China, as GPRS service improved increasingly, electric
Embedded systems and Real Time Operating systems are energy meter transmits the data information and controlling
two technologies that will play a major role in making these command remotely and wirelessly. Based on the current
concepts possible. In the present scenario a person from the electric energy meter, with the well-functioned ARM kernel
electricity authority will visit each home and read the meter microprocessor, it not only finishes the power data's
and generate the bill but this involves human work. This measuring and processing, but also realizes the TCP/IP by
cutting. By ARM kernel microprocessor controlling GPRS
process may include human error while generating the bill
module, electric energy meter could be linked to the Internet
and it will consume more time .We are trying to prevent by use of GPRS service. The overall system is stable and
human intervention in this project. IoT(Internet of Things) is reliable because it is managed by mu C/OS-II operating
a concept that connects all the devices to the internet and let system. It not only raises the efficiency of electric energy
them communicate with each other over the internet. IoT is a meter data information's acquisition and transition, but also
giant network of connected devices. Major keys to the the national measure management of electric energy
Internet of Things is Safety and Security. Since IoT allows improved greatly. Disadvantage is that This is especially for
devices to be controlled remotely across the internet, thus it some outlying areas where the Cable Network hasn't been
creates opportunities to directly connect & integrate the popularized.
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Ashna.K and Sudhish N George, "GSM based by human operator requires huge number of labor operators.
automatic energy meter reading system" IEEE Wireless They may be prone to reading error, also has errors while
communications,paper was presented in 2013.The technology recording what was read, during data entry. It is hard to
of e-metering (Electronic Metering) has gone through rapid access the meters at rural accounts, indoor meters and meters
technological advancements and there is increased demand with obstacles. To avoid this here we are going to introduce
for a reliable and efficient Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) automatic meter reading concepts (AMR) which
system. This paper presents the design of a simple low cost automatically collect the consumption of energy and then the
wireless GSM energy meter and its associated web interface, system transfer that collected data to a central database for
for automating billing and managing the collected data billing. Because of this expenses are reduced on meter reader,
globally. This paper proposed system replaces traditional his periodic trips to each house to read a meter in case when
meter reading methods and enables remote access of existing in the first trip reading is not available. With this automation
energy meter by the energy provider. Also they can monitor speed, accurateness and effectiveness has increased. Here
the meter readings regularly without the person visiting each transistor transistor logic (TTL) serial camera is used to
house. A GSM based wireless communication module is capture the image and wirelessly transfer this to server
integrated with electronic energy meter of each entity to have Personal Computer (PC) where it undergoes processing to
remote access over the usage of electricity. A PC with a GSM extract digits and with reference to previous month data base
receiver at the other end, which contains the database acts as new bill is generated with tariff consideration. This system
the billing point. Live meter reading from the GSM enabled used camera which is costly to install in every house and it is
energy meter is sent back to this billing point periodically and expensive process and camera also should have high pixels to
these details are updated in a central database. A new capture the details and this is the disadvantage of this sytem.
interactive, user friendly graphical user interface is developed In 2016 V.Preeti, G.harish, “Design and
using Microsoft visual studio .NET framework and C#. With implementation of smart energy meter” was presented.This
proper authentication, users can access the developed web paper presents a smart energy meter for an automatic
page details from anywhere in the world. The complete metering and billing system. In this meter energy utilized and
monthly usage and due bill is messaged back to the customer the corresponding amount will be displayed on the LCD
after processing these data.But disadvantage of this paper was continuously and communicated to the controlling base
it was very complicated and costly to build and it used .Net station. The feedback from the user helps in identifying the
framework and C#. usages between authorized and unauthorized users which
Philip Garner, Ian Mullins, Reuben Edwards and helps in controlling the power theft. Communication between
Paul Coulton, presented the paper in 2006 ,This paper user/household and substation is done using Zigbee. GSM
manages the execution of power line system in the field of network is used for sending SMS to the local authorities
power billing. In the present situation Power Line regarding the theft cases. This meter can work as either
Communication (PLC) is one of the temperate methods for prepaid or post-paid meter. The proposed system replaces
correspondence of information. Despite the fact that there are traditional meter reading methods and enables remote access
new strategies for remote communication Design of of existing energy meter by the energy provider. Also they can
Narrowband PLC for Power Distribution System with monitor the meter readings regularly without the person
Automated Billing Generation through GSM Network visiting each house.But Zigbee has limited distance as its
techniques, basically it is especially tedious to introduce such limitation.
a system, and furthermore it is exceptionally taken a toll
devouring strategy .But the electrical lines which as of now
exist and interface each household device in a specific
territory is more invaluable as it doesn't require any new III. ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
establishment or erection for communication channels, and
thus is not a time consuming one. In PLC power line
communication it requires high carrier frequency for data
transmission, older wires can affect the performance and
connection is complicated there are some disadvantages of
this system.
Vivek Kumar Sehgal,Nitesh Panda,
NipunRaiHanda, presented the paper on automated billing of
energy meter. It is just like postpaid mobile connection. In the
proposed work, the front end is user friendly and one can
work on this software with minimum knowledge of computers
and can read the meter by sitting in the office. This is useful
for billing purpose in electricity board authority.
Manisha shinde, Pradip kulkarni “Camera click
energy meter reading system”,this paper was presented in
2015 Now a days, electricity power consumers have increased Fig 1:Architecture Diagram
in every sectors like rural, urban, residential, commercial and
in industrial area. Hence it is very important to ensure proper Working:
use of energy to generate accurate bills, invoices and try to This system helps the users to be aware of their electricity
reduce the frauds. Electromagnetic watt meter reading done consumption. The human work of collecting readings by
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visiting every home at the end of every month can be avoided Meter, it is an electrical device that measures the amount of
by generating electricity bills automatically. Theft of electrical energy used by the consumers. Utilities are one of
electricity can be avoided by tamper proof energy meters. The the electrical departments, which install these devices at every
errors in the system can be identified quickly. place like homes, industries, organizations, commercial
In the above figure (Fig 1),it consists of a simple energy buildings to charge for the electricity consumption by loads
meter, a GSM modem, a LDR, LED light, an Arduino, Wi Fi such as lights, fans, refrigerator, and some home appliances.
module and web portal. Energy meter measures rapid currents and voltages.
Electricity supply is provided to the meter, the LED which is
attached to the meter will blink once for each rotation of the LDR: Light dependent resistor is also called as
wheel in the meter. photoconductor or photo resistor. It is a Digital Sensor which
Number of the times it blinks, the value counted by LDR works on the availability of light. Basically it is a
will be passed to the Arduino as number of units consumed. semiconductor which will act as a conductor once the light
That data will be sent to the website through GSM.
falls on it.LDR is used in Automatic Street Light Circuit,
Bill and the units consumed will be displayed on the web site
which will in turn be sent to the user for bill payment. Simple Fire Alarm Circuit, Light Activated Switch Circuit,
Automatic LED Emergency Light, Night Security Light.

Arduino UNO: Voltage= 5v,it is a microcontroller which has

digital pins and 14 analog pins. It consists of ATMEGA328
microcontroller IC. 16MHz crystal oscillator. Arduino is an
open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use
hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read
inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter
message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor,
turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell
your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the
microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino
programming language (based on Wiring), and the Arduino
Software (IDE), based on Processing.
GSM Model: 900A: This sim chip Works on 12V AC/DC. It
is basically working on AT commands. Can perform both
calls and SMS. Customers will have this sim, in order to get
the details about consumption of electricity and bill.

WIFI module: we are using Model: ESP12 as Wi-Fi module

in our project. It is a microchip which is safe and easier to
use. It works on the AT commands. It can acts as both access
point and standalone. Its operating voltage is 3.3v and can
work at maximum of 5v as input. It works on UART protocol.
It can give access to our WiFi connection.

Arduino IDE: It is the kind of text editor where we will write

Fig 2:Flow chart program code for microcontroller Arduino. Thus this software
used to program an Arduino. It is a freeware, cross
The above figure (Fig 2), shows the flow chart of our platform and easy to use software. It consists of build in
developing system. Electricity supply is provided to the meter keywords which are used for programming.
and the LDR which is connected to the meter will count the
number of units consumed based on LED blinks. Units Embedded C: Embedded C Programming is the soul of the
consumed is passed to the Arduino. This data will be sent to processor functioning inside each and every embedded
the website through GSM and displayed on the web site system we come across in our daily life, such as mobile
which will be sent to the user for bill payment. phone, washing machine, and digital camera. Each processor
is always associated with an embedded software. The
embedded software decides the functioning of the embedded
Methodology:
system. Basically nowadays all the microcontrollers are
The designed energy meter includes a simple energy meter, a
programmed using embedded C only. It is typically similar to
GSM modem (SIM-900), An Arduino (master controller),
C language. Usually hardware programming is done using
(measure electric pulse).The pulse count value will be sent to
embedded C. Embedded C language is most
particular person through GSM.
frequently used to language to program the microcontroller.
The C code written is more reliable, scalable, and portable;
Energy meter: It is used for measuring the energy utilized by and in fact, much easier to understand.
the electric load. Energy Meter is also called as Watt-Hour
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 Embedded C is a generic term given to a [4] Vivek Kumar Sehgal,Nitesh Panda, NipunRaiHanda,
programming language written in C, and it is “Electronic Energy Meter with instant billing”,UK Sim
associated with a particular hardware architecture.
 Embedded C is an extension to the C language. It Fourth European Modelling Symposium on Computer
has some additional header files.These header files. Modelling and Simulation.
 The microcontroller 8051 #include<reg51.h> is
used. [5] Tanmoy Maity and Partha Sarathi Das,
"Intelligent online measurement and management of
Thingspeak: It is a website designed and handled by
mathworks. It is used to save data coming from the energy meter data through advanced wireless
hardware.And displays the details about electricity network" IEEE Wireless communications, 2011.
consumption and bill.

IV. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENT [6] Manisha shinde, Pradip kulkarni “Camera click energy
meter reading system”,2015 International conference on
The IOT based energy meter saves the customer’s time by
pervasive computing(ICPC)
making them work. “leaner”. The operation of the calculating
the power cost is simple and doesn’t involve delays. The
power cost is send through serial communication to the User
[7] Masudar Rahman,Noor jannat,Mohd.ohidul Islam,Serazus
through GSM. The users can be aware of their electricity
consumption. The human work of collecting readings by salakin, “Arduino and GSM based smart energy meter for
visiting every home at the end of every month can be avoided
advanced metering and billing system” , 2nd Int’l conference
by generating electricity bills automatically. Theft of
electricity can be avoided by tamper proof energy meters. The on Electrical engineering and information & communication
errors in the system can be identified quickly.
technology(ICEEICT),2015,Bangladesh
In future we can implement our project by creating
mobile application or web application so that the customer
can get the power consumption details and bill of the
[8] V.Preeti, G.harish, “Design and implementation of smart
electricity used from anywhwere in the world and they can get
it in der hands just with a click using mobile app. energy meter” ,International Conference on Inventive
Computer technologies (ICICT), 2016 IEEE

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