IOT Based Energy Meter Reading and Theft Monitoring

Revista Romana de Inginerie Civila/Romanian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021

In this connected world, the development and widespread use of smart devices has led to a new beginning for machine-to-machine communication anytime and anywhere. As artificial intelligence spreads, this connectivity has created a completely different vision of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has led to the emergence of a virtual network between man and the physical world of various things, thus drastically changing the way various businesses operate. In this context, the paper below describes a system of reading electricity meters based on the IoT and integrated circuits containing microcontrollers known commercially as Arduino. In this paper we also present a remote electricity billing system. This billing process is faster and more efficient, enabling customers to pay their bills earlier.

This paper is described to measure energy consumption in the house. This can help in reducing energy consumption in house as the owner is continuously being notified about the number of units that are consumed. Consumers are not satisfied with the services of power companies. Thus we are trying to present an idea towards the minimization of technical errors and to reduce human dependency at the same time. Theft of electricity increases the costs paid by customers and can have serious safety consequences. A proposed method provides the communication between the Electricity Board section and the consumer section using Internet of things (IOT) for transmitting the customer's electricity consumption and bill information that is calculated using ATmega328 microcontroller. The power and billing information is continuously transmitted by the use of Internet of Things and monitored by the Electricity Board section. WIFI performs the IOT operation where and through which the information is sent to the Web server. This data is then transmitted to the server unit at MSEB. The power consumption can be checked by the owner anywhere globally also. The snap of energy meter is sent on email. Also power theft can be detected if any tampering happens it will send the information to the server and alert SMS to the owner as well as it will cut the electricity automatically. The internet is connected to meter and it counts the pulses from it and displays it over the LCD display. The meter reading can be obtained at zero cost. This system not only reduces the labour cost but also increase meter reading accuracy and save hugs amount of time. In this way we can reduce human efforts needed to record the meter readings which are till now recorded by visiting every home individually.

2017

In this connected world, the expansion of the intelligent devices has created a new start to the machine to machine communication at any time and at any place. As intelligence spreads beyond devices to anything, this connectivity has created a more noteworthy vision on Internet of things. The Internet of things has made a virtual network between the human and this physical world and has drastically changed the way business works[1]. Numerous associations are finding the inventive approaches to make information trade with more protection and decreased expenses. The way to pick up the genuine business esteem from Internet of things is viable end-to-end correspondence. This compelling correspondence can be accomplished by sending the ideal stage between the both gadgets that are included in trading the information. This Paper describes the design and implementation of energy meter utilizing IoT concept. The Proposed System takes out the human involvement in the power administration. Th...

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology IJRASET, 2020

In today's environment without internet living and working is very difficult in daily life. The Internet of things is the major technology by which we can produce various useful applications. The paper describes the digitization of load energy usage and power theft updated over the internet using hardware and software. The designed system reduces the involvement of human interference in electricity maintenance. It uses the wireless technology for automatic meter reading system. The user can monitor energy consumption from a webpage by providing a channel id for the load. The webpage utilizes the ThingSpeak to analyze the energy usage and theft update and visualization and energy usage statistics. Raspberry Pi was chosen due to built in Wi-Fi chip. The Wi-Fi unit performs the IOT operation by sending the load data to the webpage. The power theft detection is monitored by IR sensor and is fed to the Raspberry Pi which indicates it to the webpage. So the consumer can do power management and theft detection. Index Terms: Internet of Things, Energy monitoring, Theft detection I. INTRODUCTION The IOT system consists of computing devices, digital and mechanical objects. People with unique identifiers potentially transfer information over a network without human to human interaction. The physical world objects are no longer disconnected from the virtual world [1]. Lot of research was involved to increase the demand of internal of things and its applications. Now-a-Days the demand for electricity is increasing at a constant rate and is being utilized for various purposes i.e. agriculture, industries, household purposes, hospitals etc. An immediate requirement is to save as much electricity as possible. The technology development [2, 3] is needed along with the demand for electricity. The project implemented to securely monitor the energy and theft using IOT technology from any place.

IJARCCE

This research is to design an automated electric meter reading and billing system. It will replace human working system for taking reading. It will be helpful in knowing the daily electricity usage. The proposed system design eliminates the human involvement in Electricity maintenance. The Buyer needs to pay for the usage of electricity on schedule, in case that he couldn"t pay, the electricity transmission can be turned off autonomously from the distant server. The user can monitor the energy consumption in units from a web page by providing device IP address [1].

International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Research, 2018

Monitoring and keeping tracking of your electricity consumption for verification is a tedious task today since you need to go to meter reading room and take down readings. Well it is important to know if you are charged accordingly so the need is quite certain. Well we automate the system by allowing users to monitor energy meter readings over the internet. Our proposed system uses energy meter with arduino system to monitor energy usage using a meter.The meter is used to monitor units consumed and transmit the units as well as cost charged over the internet using Wi-Fi connection. This allows user to easily check the energy usage along with the cost charged online using a simple web application. Thus the energy meter monitoring system allows user to effectively monitor electricity meter readings and check the billing online with ease. It presents a low cost and flexible energy meter monitoring system using IOT.This technology offers new and exciting opportunity to reduce our work and to prevent the equipments from damages.

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2020

https://www.ijert.org/evolution-of-smart-energy-meter-monitoring-and-billing-using-iot https://www.ijert.org/research/evolution-of-smart-energy-meter-monitoring-and-billing-using-iot-IJERTCONV8IS06031.pdf Energy meter billing is an important part in the Energy Management System (EMS). Each time a person is required from the electricity board authority to collect the reading of energy meter and create a bill to the consumer. But this created a problem because the manual reading needs manpower, time consuming and may cause an error. This paper present an Internet of Things (IOT) based smart energy meter. Smart energy meter is introduced to overcome the above stated problem by providing the facilities of automatic reading of meter and automatic connection & disconnection can be made based on the electricity bill payment of consumer through IOT. The proposed system consists of both hardware and software for monitoring the various parameters like voltage, current, energy and cost. This system sends the details of energy consumed by the consumer (kWh) & total bill amount to the consumer via Short Message Service (SMS) at the end of each billing period (Bi-monthly). In addition to that, consumer receives the SMS from the system when the usage of total energy exceeds certain limits based on tariff and the details of tariff are displayed in the website. The above concept is shown in prototype model and also simulated in PROTEUS software.

Asian Journal of Electrical Sciences

This paper presents a device that uses the evolving IoT technology to design and implement an internet-based energy meter. This meter, being cheap and easy-to-implement solution, enables consumers to monitor the daily usage of electric power easily. This work primarily concerns the energy-monitoring aspect of IoT, along with discussing other advantages of this meter, such as its ability to overcome human errors and reducing dependency on manual labor, besides reducing costs in energy consumption. The proposed design, which comprises a low-cost wireless network and protocol for smart energy along with a web application capable of automatically reading the unit and then sending the data automatically provides great advantages to users by allowing them to keep a track of their meter reading. This system will help users by allowing them to not only take steps to reduce power wastage but also bring down costs of consumption, along with minimizing the threat of power theft, which is incur...

IRJET, 2023

For usage in residences, workplaces, factories, etc., we created an automated electrical energy meter billing system based on IoT (Internet of Things). Electricity has evolved into one of the fundamental needs for human existence, and it is used extensively for industrial, commercial, and agricultural reasons. Customers frequently express dissatisfaction with electrical network maintenance. They complain that their monthly bills contain statistical mistakes. Therefore, we offer suggestions to avoid technological errors while also attempting to lessen reliance on a human. Additionally, IoT is a key idea utilized in this work (Internet of Things). IoT is a new technology that can send data across a network without requiring human or computer intervention and has unique identifiers. Through the use of this technology, we have attempted to communicate the whole energy usage data via email from a remote site to the customer and electricity board. In addition, we have developed a unique website and uploaded the meter readings there. Customers can regulate the electricity in the proposed system, periodically knowing how much energy they are using. Through the Wi-Fi module, the created invoice can be seen on the web page. The customer may pay the invoice as scheduled. We can use power more effectively and lower the amount of money that the government loses. The implementation of IoT will help better management, conservation of energy and also in doing away with the unnecessary hassles over incorrect billing in electricity modules. Further the IoT will be able to incorporate transparently and seamlessly a number of different devices.

This paper is described to measure energy consumption in the house and generate its bill automatically using telemetric communication. This can help in reducing energy consumption in house as the owner is continuously being notified about the number of units that are consumed. It objective is to generate bill automatically by checking the electricity unit's consumption in a house and in a way to reduce the manual labor. The calculations are performed automatically and the bill is updated on the internet by using a network of Internet of Things. The bill amount can be checked by the owner anywhere globally.