E-Meter:

Intelligent Online Measurement and management of

Energy Through Advanced Wireless Network
Now-a-days the number of Electricity consumers is increasing in great extent. It became a hard task
in handling and maintaining the power as per the growing requirements. Presently maintenance of
the power is also an important task as the human operator goes to the consumers house and
produces the bill as per the meter reading. If the consumer is not available, the billing process will be
pending and human operator again needs to revisit. Going to each and every consumers house and
generating the bill is a laborious task and requires lot of time. It becomes very difficult especially in
rainy season. If any consumer did not pay the bill, the operator needs to go to their houses to
disconnect the power supply. These processes are time consuming and difficult to handle.
The project presents a new methodology for avoiding the high construction and maintenance costs in
the existing meter reading technology. Apart the use of wireless meter reading with network
technologies has become need of the day. The designed system avoids the human intervention in
Power Management. The Consumer has to pay the bill in time, if couldnt, the power connection
may be disconnected automatically from the remote server. It displays the corresponding billing
information and data is sent to the server through the GSM Module.The purpose of this project is to
remote monitoring and control of the Domestic Energy meter. This system enables the Electricity
Department to read the meter readings regularly without the person visiting each house. This can be
achieved by the use of microcontroller unit that continuously monitors and records the Energy Meter
readings in its permanent (non-volatile) memory location. This system also makes use of a GSM modem for
remote monitoring and control of Energy Meter.

Energy consumption calculation:

The total energy consumed is given as shown in the below formula. Total energy consumed= (Wattage X No.
of hours used per day) 1000 = Kilowatt hours (Kwh)
The software developed here is to make an interactive, reliable and transparent relationship between the
consumer and the electric supply agency.
It is an object-oriented programming development system for creating applications that run under
any of the Microsoft Windows environments The program developed reads the data through receiver
and gives the corresponding energy reading continuously similar to a connected conventional
electromechanical meter.
The software also gives user the opportunity of automatic billing.

This is the era of wireless communication. One can get any information on mobile within
seconds. We can communicate with near and dears with SMSs using GSM. Keeping this huge
impact of GSM technology on this generation we think about use of it for remote parameters
monitoring system.

We are developing the system for Electricity Board. The system will get the meter readings of
different Flats in a building and send them to a Main Unit. Main unit will send the received
meter reading to server of Electricity Board using SMS and GSM techniques.
The basic working of the system will be as follows,

Flat unit 1

Flat unit 2

GSM
service
Provider

Main unit
GSM MODEM

Remote
PC

Flat Unit:

MSEB Unit
GSM MODEM

Meter
Input
Microcontroller

Micro
Controller
In this system microcontroller will count pulses from energy meter through optocoupler.
Frequency of the pulses depends on power consumption. GSM module is used to transmit
meter reading to main unit.
The electric supply agency also can access the individual consumers information by its own password and
user name.