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Design and Implementation of Smart Energy Meter: August 2016
Design and Implementation of Smart Energy Meter: August 2016
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Abstract--Electricity is one of the fundamental necessities manual operator cannot find the unauthorized
of human beings, which is commonly used for domestic, connections or malpractices carried out by the consumer
industrial and agricultural purposes. Power theft is the to reduce or stop the meter reading/power supply. The
biggest problem in recent days which causes lot of loss to human error can open an opportunity for corruption
electricity boards. In countries like India, these situations
done by the human meter reader. So the problem which
are more often. If we can prevent these thefts we can save
lot of power. This is done using Smart Energy Meter arises in the billing system can become inaccurate and
(SEM). SEM is an electric device having energy meter chip inefficient [1].
for measuring the electric energy consumed and a wireless The availability of wireless communication
protocol for data communication. This paper presents a media has made the exchange of information fast,
smart energy meter for an automatic metering and billing secured and accurate. There are two types of networks,
system. In this meter energy utilized and the they are wired and wireless. Wired networks require lot
corresponding amount will be displayed on the LCD of setup and maintenance cost. In wireless networks
continuously and communicated to the controlling base there are many technologies. In this project we
station. The feedback from the user helps in identifying the
implemented using Zigbee technology because of its
usages between authorized and unauthorized users which
helps in controlling the power theft. Communication effective communication, self-healing networks, low
between user/household and substation is done using power consumption, zero traffic and they can handle
Zigbee. GSM network is used for sending SMS to the local over 60000 devices and more over Zigbee
authorities regarding the theft cases. This meter can work communication installation require no special
as either prepaid or post-paid meter. The proposed system permissions in most of the places. It uses unlicensed
replaces traditional meter reading methods and enables 2.4GHz ISM band which is available worldwide. Zigbee
remote access of existing energy meter by the energy has range between 10 m to 2 km and it works well with
provider. Also they can monitor the meter readings networks such as Wi-Fi, Ethernet and GPRS and also
regularly without the person visiting each house.
provides scalable networking solution which makes it
Keywords--Smart Energy Meter (SEM), Zigbee, GSM. suitable to be used in controlling and monitoring
applications. And we selected other communication
I. INTRODUCTION network to be GSM to send SMS to local authorities in
case of theft, because GSM has a built in transport layer
With the rapid developments in the Wireless encryption, which is supported by most network
communication technology by the use of providers [2].
microcontrollers, there are many improvements in The digital implementation caused the rapid
automating various industrial aspects for reducing utilization of devices such as computers and
manual efforts. The traditional manual meter reading telecommunication devices. Communication media like
was not suitable for longer operating purposes as it the internet, GSM networks, Zigbee exists everywhere.
spends much human and material resource. It brings SEM puts more control into the hands of consumers by
additional problems in calculation of readings and giving them more detailed information about power
billing manually. Now-a-days the number of electricity consumption. That information is sent to the base station
consumers is increasing in great extent. It became a hard regularly using Zigbee and in case of power theft an
task in handling and maintaining the power as per the SMS is sent to local operator from base station using
growing requirements. Presently maintenance of the GSM. As there is no human intervention in the entire
power is also an important task as the human operator process, there is no chance of human error and
goes to the consumer’s house and produces the bill as corruption.
per the meter reading. If the consumer is not available,
the billing process will be pending and human operator II. EXISTING SYSTEMS
again needs to revisit. Going to each and every
consumer’s house and generating the bill is a laborious For this work existing meter reading techniques
task and requires lot of time. It becomes very difficult in India are analysed and conducted an extensive study
especially in rainy season. If any consumer did not pay on different energy measuring instruments available
the bill, the operator needs to go to their houses to now. In existing system either an electronic energy
disconnect the power supply. These processes are time meter or an electro-mechanical meter is fixed in the
consuming and difficult to handle. Moreover, the
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premise for measuring the usage. The meters currently of prepaid energy meter, which can control the usage of
in use are only capable of recording kWh units. electricity on consumer side to avoid wastage of power
The kWh units used then still have to be and is a concept to minimize the electricity theft. As the
recorded by meter readers monthly, on foot. The billing process is done automatically in the proposed
recorded data need to be processed by a meter reading system it mainly reduces the manpower.
company. For processing the meter reading, company
needs to firstly link each recorded power usage datum to A. Problem Statement
an account holder and then determine the amount owed
by means of the specific tariff in use. [3] The Electricity Board have got used to the
Wireless electric power management and manual process and they go along with it even though
control system for short distance is developed using there are many concerns associated with it. Because of
Zigbee technique [4], [5]. For this IEEE 802.15.4 the human errors after getting faulty bill, it is problem of
standard protocol is used as a Zigbee standard, user to get it corrected from the energy supply board. In
microcontroller is used to manage energy data and that case customer has to visit the office, stand in a
Zigbee to enable communication between the energy queue and get it corrected. The problem is just because
meter and data centres. The secure mobile agent concept of human intervention. To avoid human intervention in
was presented in [6], instead of one person for one meter the billing process, in this new generation, an automatic
according to geographical area energy meters can be reading meter system came into use.
organized. For one location energy meters a security
manager can do his work. Local mobile agent can do his B. Block Diagram of Smart Energy Meter
duty for a specific location to avoid the visit of external
mobile agent to energy meters directly. If there are any The proposed system has two sections mainly,
queries of security manager local mobile agent can solve one is Home Section and another one is Electrical Base
at his level and visit energy meters. The embedded Station (EB). Communication between these two
energy meter concept [7] is based on the prepaid sections is done through wireless network. This system
recharge concept of mobile recharge, where maximum monitors the load, monitoring means calculating the
demand of energy of a consumer is indicated in the power consumed exactly by the user at a given time.
meter. After exceeding the maximum demand, the meter Energy utilized and the corresponding amount will
and hence the connection will automatically be displayed on LCD continuously and communicated to
disconnected by an embedded system inserted in the the controlling base station. The feedback from the user
meter itself. helps in identifying and controlling the power theft. An
The major disadvantage of a post-paid system SMS containing monthly bill along with the due date is
is that there is no control of usage from the consumer’s sent to the respective meter owner using GSM module
side. There is a lot of wastage of power. Since the which is present in the EB section. This module also
supply of power is limited, as a responsible citizen, there helps in alerting the authorized people through an SMS
is a need to use electricity in a improved and efficient during the power theft.
way. There are clear domino effect from many countries
everywhere a prepaid system has reduced the usage
(wastage) by a great quantity. Additional advantage of
the prepaid system is that the human errors made
reading meters and processing bills can be reduced to a
great amount. Wireless meter can be used in residential
apartments and especially in industrial consumers where
bulk energy is consumed [8]. Advance in technology
have made exchange of information in very high-speed,
protected and truthful. Advance in wireless technology
caused rapid change in field of telecommunication
system. Communication system like internet and GSM
are available in India. This paper presents a system
which can act as either prepaid or post-paid meter [9].
Fig. 1 Block Diagram of User’s House Module
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM
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C. Working of Smart Energy Meter In the normal case an SMS containing power consumed
and its bill along with the due date is sent to the
The proposed system mainly operates in two modes: consumer. The above process clearly explains how SEM
is operated in post-paid mode.
1. Prepaid Mode
2. Post-paid Mode
In Prepaid Mode:
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Fig. 6 shows that SEM is in post-paid mode. Here mode switch is used
Fig. 3 represents the module at User’s House consisting of several for selecting the mode (Prepaid/Postpaid).
hardware components.
In the receiving section base station module is
connected to a Personal Computer (PC)/Laptop .In my
project a system file (application) is being used in PC
and if we open it a window is displayed as shown in the
Fig. 7. As shown in Fig. 8 we can select for how many
days the bill should be generated and sent to the
consumer. Also we can specify to which mobile number
the SMS alert has to be sent. We have to specify the
local operator number in order to alert him regarding
power theft cases.
Fig. 5 shows that SEM is in prepaid mode. The power consumption Fig. 8 shows a window where we can select number of days and can
(in watts) and its corresponding amount are displayed on the LCD specify the mobile number.
continuously.
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