" Automatic Billing System for Energy Meter Reading using GSM "

Owing to high electricity cost these days it becomes necessary for the consumer to know as to how much electricity is consumed to control electricity bill within his budget. 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. Arduino is interfaced to the energy meter to get the Watt Hour pulses. The Arduino then processes these pulses according the program written in it, to calculate the units consumed and cost involved. Further it gives command to the SIM loaded GSM modem for sending the data to the customer/consumer via SMS. Further this work can be enhanced to control the electrical appliances remotely via SMS. Also it can be used to monitor the power consumption or any other factor like pressure, temperature etc. with appropriate changes.

Journal of Natural Sciences Engineering and Technology, 2021

The measurement of the energy consumed by residential and commercial buildings by utility provider is important in billing, control, and monitoring of the usage of energy. Traditional metering techniques used for the measurement of energy are not convenient and is prone to different forms of irregularities. These irregularities include meter failure, meter tampering, inaccuracies in billing due to human error, energy theft, and loss of revenue due to corruption, etc. This research study proposed the design and construction of a microcontroller-based electric energy metering system using the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) network. This system provides a solution to the irregularities posed by the traditional metering technique by allowing the utility provider have access to remote monitoring capabilities, full control over consumer load, and remote power disconnection in the case of energy theft. Proteus simulation software was used to model the system hardware and the ...

2015 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2015

Every management system is trying to make automatic, portable and remote control. This work presents a novel smart energy meter for an automatic and superior metering and billing system. The integration of the Arduino and GSM Short Message Service (SMS) provide the meter reading system with some automatic functions that are predefined. Firstly, we have simulated the project in PROTEUS 8.0 then successfully implemented on the circuit board in laboratory. The proposed energy meter system can incorporate with embedded controller and GSM modem to transmit the data like consumed energy in kWh, generated bill, security services (line Cut/On) over GSM mobile network such as data can be then fed and integrated into existing energy management systems located at power companies or organizations to provide the services among the customers without man-power. Our implemented project is able to provide all required services remotely for metering and billing with high fidelity.

In this project an automatic meter reading system is designed using GSM Technology. The embedded micro controller is interfaced with the GSM Module. This setup is fitted in home. The energy meter is attached to the micro controller. This controller reads the data from the meter output and transfers that data to GSM Module through the serial port. The embedded micro controller has the knowledge of sending message to the system through the GSM module. Another system is placed in EB office, which is the authority office. When they send " unit request " to the microcontroller which is placed in home. Then the unit value is sent to the EB office PC through GSM module. According to the readings, the authority officer will send the information about the bill to the customer. If the customer doesn't pay bill on-time, the power supply to the corresponding home power unit is cut, by sending the command through to the microcontroller. Once the payment of bill is done the power supply is given to the customer. Power management concept is introduced, in which during the restriction mode only limited amount of power supply can be used by the customer.

An automatic remote meter-reading system based on GSM is presented in this paper. This paper is useful to obtain meter reading when desired so meter readers don't need to visit each customer for the consumed energy data collection and to distribute the bill slips. Microcontroller can be used to monitor and record the meter readings. In case of a customer defaulter, no need to send a person of utility to cutoff the customer connection. Utility can cut off and reconnect the customer connection by short message service (SMS). Furthermore, the customer can check the status of electricity (load) from anywhere. In this system energy meter readings are being transferred by making use of GSM.

Automatic Energy Meter Reading system (AEMR) regularly read the energy meter and calculate total amount of bill at the set dead line and sends the message to service provider. From energy meter received data i.e. user name, meter ID, total units with paying amount this message maintained at database server which located at service provider department. By using this system save the time required for conventional billing system and minimized human work load. User and service provider both are get correct reading and bill amount. AEMR System can provide message at hourly, daily and monthly by the request. This technology reduced the man power, reading collection time, theft of electricity also avoids late bill payment. By apply this system data security improve. And improve customer and service provider services. Due to this system service provider quickly find out illegal and late bill paying customer by accessing database. So GSM based AEMR system is more efficient that conventional billing system.

2017

The measurement of the energy consumed by residential and commercial buildings by utility provider is important in billing, control and monitoring of the usage of energy. Traditional metering techniques used for the measurement of energy are not convenient and is prone to different forms of irregularities. These irregularities include inaccuracies in billing due to human error, energy theft, loss of revenue due to corruption and so on. This research study proposed the design and construction of a microcontroller based electric energy metering system using the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) network. This system provides solution to the irregularities posed by the traditional metering technique by allowing the utility provider have access to remote monitoring capabilities, full control over consumer load, and remote power disconnection in the case of energy theft. Proteus simulation software was used to model the system hardware and the software was obtained by using emb...

An automatic remote meter-reading system based on GSM is presented in this paper. This paper is useful to obtain meter reading when desired so meter readers don't need to visit each customer for the consumed energy data collection and to distribute the bill slips. Microcontroller can be used to monitor and record the meter readings. In case of a customer defaulter, no need to send a person of utility to cut-off the customer connection. Utility can cut off and reconnect the customer connection by short message service (SMS). Furthermore, the customer can check the status of electricity (load) from anywhere. In this system energy meter readings are being transferred by making use of GSM.

This paper presents automated billing of energy meter by establishing a wireless connection between the individual consumer's energy meter and the distribution transformer on the pole. Analogous to a postpaid mobile connection,this system will send the usage data directly to the distribution node from where it will be transmitted simultaneously to the utility and the consumer .This is useful for billing purpose in electricity board authority. A GSM modem is connected to the energy meter. Each modem will be having its own sim . Data from this modem is transmitted to the utility's database and to the consumers. This design maintains transparency while it allows the user to adeptly track and pay for the services provided easily. The module also provides effective solution to energy theft by implementing suitable sensors to detect theft and tampering. Just like postpaid mobile connections, one can know our due bill instantly and can even pay for it. The SIM card used is implemented in energy meter and it sends a message to the user about the due bill. A LCD is used in the hardware module for the user interface. The LCD displays the current usage and units consumed. After the usage of each unit the amount and total units will be incremented whenever user wants to know his/her bill he/she can message a given code to sim card attached to the meter and can know his/her present bill. The user can pay the amount just by knowing the given code which is fed in the meter.

Electricity is one of the vital requirements for the sustainment of a comfortable and productive life and as such it should be used judiciously for its proper utilization. Consumers are not satisfied with the services of power companies with the existing energy meter reading and billing system. Most of the time they have complains regarding statistical errors in their monthly bills. The objective of our project is to design and implement an automatic energy meter reading system that measures and transmits total energy consumption to the Electricity Provider using the GSM network as well as disconnect or reconnect the meter remotely. This can be achieved by the use of a microcontroller unit that continuously monitors and records the energy meter readings in its permanent memory location and a GSM modem that enables the remote monitoring and control of the energy meter. The proposed Microcontroller based system continuously records the readings and the live meter reading can be sent to the provider using the existing short messaging services (SMS) of the GSM network on request. This system can also be used to disconnect or reconnect the power supply to the consumer if the need arises. A dedicated GSM modem with a SIM card interfaced to the ports of the microcontroller is required for each energy meter. With this, a great deal of energy is saved and the consumer enjoys maximum satisfaction of the electrical energy paid for; hence an improvement, stability and utilization of electrical energy are achieved as well as reduction on human dependency.