Apart from making readings using gsm communication, billing system is needed to be made prepaid to avoid unnecessary usage of power. The conventional method of electricity billing involves a person from the distribution unit reading the number of units of electricity consumed in the energy meter, conveying this information to the distribution unit, and then preparing the bill according to the units consumed for a fixed amount of time. The major drawback of traditional billing system is power and energy theft. Prepaid energy meter using gsm engineering projects. Gsm based monthly electrical energy meter billing through. A survey paper on prepaid electricity distribution system. A smart card based prepaid electricity system the purpose of this project is to design and develop an intelligent energy metering system that can efficiently control the amount of electricity consumed by the user.
Gsmbased energy meter consist of a gsm base embedded module gbem, which is the brain for the power data processing, tamper detection, and gsm based recharge scheme prepaid billing. Then the meter holds the purchased energy units corresponding to the recharged value and let the consumer to use electricity until the purchased units are exhausted. Pdf prepaid energy meter with gsm technology noman ali. The automated billing system will keep track of the real time. Prepaid and postpaid energy meter for billing system using. This technology holds good for all electricity distribution. Pdf gsm based prepaid electricity system with theft. Modeling of gsmbased energy recharge scheme for prepaid. Vital role of gsm modem in remote billing of energy meterwater meter using gsm modem is as follows. Server station is also served by a gsm module for transmission and reception of data as energy auditing. This framework embraces another strategy known as prepaid power. Steps ares prepaid electricity billing scheme process figure2.
Reading will be taken automatically and users get the notification through message using gsm. Prepaid energy meter with gsm technology open access. Block diagram of prepaid energy meter system the block diagram consist of gsm module, microcontroller, power supply 16 x 2 lcd display, relay, energy meter, load. Prepaid and postpaid energy meter for billing system using microcontroller and gsm prof. This system also can be used to disconnect the power supply to the house in case of nonpayment of electricity bills. Also after paying the bill on electricity board eb the confirmation bill will generated automatically on the consumer end. The concept of prepaid is one of the emerging fields for the paid service providers. To find out more about the easypay outlets selling prepaid electricity, please browse the options on the left. The proposed system does not replace the traditional meters and it. Electricity users can buy specific amount of energy to use it only when they needed. Gsm technology is used so that the consumer would receive messages about the consumption of power in watts and if it reaches the minimum amount, it would automatically alert the consumer to recharge. K, mareena john department of instrumentation and control engineering psg college of technology peelamedu, coimbatore, india abstract the usage of electricity automatically, if the bill is not paid.
Automatic power meter reading system using gsm network. An enhancment of prepaid energy meter using smart card. The billing process of electricity consumption which we are using at present is very long process and requires lot of man power. The prepaid system is designed with a smart technology using renesas controller and the recharging process is by some method of communication i.
There are clear results from many countries, where prepaid system has reduced the revenue loss by a large amount. This paper develops the design for automatic reading of electrica l energy consumed in units using gsm technology. The advantage of the prepaid metering system and its design components have been discussed. Prepaid smart meter energy management system using. The microcontroller based system continuously records the readings and the live meter reading can be sent to the electricity department on request. Pdf prepaid and postpaid energy meter for billing system. The use of prepaid energy meter is still controversial. Energy metering circuit using prepaid energy meter. This prepaid metering system minimize the human intervention in meter reading, bill calculations and billing delivery which ultimately reduces many defects than the currently existing postpaid billing systems. The recharging can be done from any remote place without accessing the energy meter physically. This concept provides a cost efficient manner of electricity billing. The main objective of the project is to develop a wireless energy meter.
A prepaid energy meter using gprsgsm technology for. In this paper presented here the technique has been developed prepaid scratch card billing system for electricity. Prepaymentprepaid energy meter introduction and working. The prepaid card communicates with the power utility using gsm communication network. Introduction he current procedure with regard to the billing process for electricity is not a fully automated system. So this paper represents the prepaid electricity meter using gsm module to facilitate. The concept is becoming so popular because it has so many advantages. This will enable the user to recharge hisher electricity account from home. Electronic meters need for prepaid energy meter system. The manual reading system suffers from a wide variety of disadvantages, which. The prepaid energy meter described in this paper is a single phase230v40a energy meter which consist of a metering devise designed according to the iec1036 199609 standard and a prepaid module.
Gsm based electricity energy meter billing system youtube. Fawzi alnaina and bahaa jalil8,built a prototyping prepaid electricity meter system based on rfid. The services like electricity, gas, water telephone etc are now days get privatized. It involves manual processes from the time the meter reader starts reading the meter until the system is updated with the current reading. Thissystem is divided into two part such as client and server. We are introducing prepaid billing system in order to avoid steeling of electricity as well as to save more time of consumers by keeping them away from queues. Portal based prepaid energy billing system using gsm ieee xplore. This method creates awareness among the customers thereby avoiding unnecessary.
Prepaid energy meter project using gsm and pic microcontroller. Apart from making readings using gsm communication, billing system is needed to be made. The prepaid electricity billing meter could be widely used to provide a new more customized electricity billing system, where users may recharge when they intend to use that facility. Gsm based energy meter billing using arduino mega 2560. It also consists of a gsm modem that allows the operator to recharge the meter remotely using am sms message. Basically, this is the concept of electronic energy meter for records the consumer billing, the minimization of energy theft and reducing the energy losses as compared to the conventional. Electricity billing by prepaid system using gsm technology ijert. The arduino takes the pulse from the energy meter, calculate units and displays the reading on the lcd. This drawback is reduced by using a prepaid energy meter which is based on. Prepaid power billing using adaptive meter open access. Portal based prepaid energy billing system using gsm. The billing process is prepaid energy billing, which could be titled. Constraints are accurate metering, energy theft and implementation of proper tariff as well as billing system.
The ability of the proposed system to inform or send data digitally to a remote station using wireless radio link adds a large amount of possibilities to the way the power supply is controlled by the electricity board. Prepaid smart meter energy management system using arduino microcontroller with labview g. In this system he used controller unite, prepaid card and communication module. The project also aims at proposing a system that will reduce the loss of power and revenue. A majority of energy providers in india are still using the traditional method of energy meter billing. In this paper, technique for prepaid and postpaid scheme using sms has been illustrated. The gsm module is utilized so that the client can persistently be educated of the energy utilization and if the sum energized achieves a base worth, it alarms the client to energize. This modem provides a common set of wellsuited services and potentials to all.
A dedicated gsm modem with sim card is required for each energy meter. Prepaid energy meer with gsm technology1 from this paper we refer the project is to minimize the queue at the electricity billing counters and to restrict the usages of electricity if. An arrangement is also made to intimate the user with the help of gsm communication module when. In case of energy consumed so that decrees the balance. Spane ganurkar, prepaid energy meter for billing system using. Controlling of electricity theft using smart prepaid. Modeling of arduinobased prepaid energy meter using gsm. The present energy billing systems are discrete, inaccurate, costly and slow.
Gsmbased recharge systemgbrs for single phase prepaid meter has been modeled and simulated in matlabsimulink environment. Smart energy meter based, prepaid electricity distribution. Smart energy meter based, prepaid electricity distribution system. Index terms mobile based billing, meter reading, electricity billing i. Download the seminar report for prepaid energy meter using gsm. This technology holds good for all electricity distribution companies. Energy meter, gsm technology, microcontroller at89s52, prepaid card, relay, putty software. The remedy for this drawback is a prepaid energy billing. Controlling of electricity theft using smart prepaid energy meter. Conclusion the design of smart energy meter using gsm technology facilitate the users to pay for the electricity before its consumption. The proposed system replacing the manual work with automatic meter readings coupled with global system for mobile communication gsm modem technology which simplifies the task of collecting reading, creating database. Pdf prepaid energy meter using gsm module researchgate.
For comprehensive information about how prepaid electricity works, and inclining block tariffs, please view the dedicated site on prepayment electricity. Gsm global system for mobile communications is a cellular network, which means that mobile phones connect to it by searching for cells in the immediate vicinity. Apart from making readings using gsm communication, billing system is. And also the wireless metering the meter has sent the meter reading e. The proposed system is based on atmel 89s52 controller which is in our syllabus. The term gsm stands for global system for mobile communications is a digital wireless nw standard designed by standardization teams from major european telecommunications workers and designers. The power utility can recharge the prepaid card remotely through gsmsms mode base on customer requests. Prepaid energy meter with gsm modem using pic microcontroller. Prepaid energy meters with gsm technology in this method consumers are expected to reload their mobile account and send a sms to the energy meter using gsm network. In this paper, the idea of a prepaid energy meter using an at89s52 microcontroller has been introduced.
Research paper advance low cost electricity billing. Conference confluence the next generation information technology summit confluence. Sms based recharge protocol for prepaid energy billing system. Amit jain 7, proposed a prepaid meter using mobilecommunication in2011. On the one hand, those that support the diffusion of prepaid meters claim that they benefit both consumers and utilities. Design and development of prepaid electricity billing using. In this system using gsm module to recharge the account.
A gsm based energy recharge interface which contains a prepaid card equivalent to a mobile sim card. For doing this project we use some of the software like embedded c for programming the application software to the microcontroller. Mok, automatic power meter reading system using gsm network, ieee rps, 2007. This prepaid energy system this system similar as the prepaid mobil e system. The results obtained shows good system performance. Electricity billing by prepaid system using gsm technology. We also used the relays to cut down the power supply of unpaid user which would be controlled wirelessly using iot concept.
A prepaid energy metering system enables power utilities to collect energy bills from the consumers prior to the usage of power by delivering only as much as what has been paid for. Smart electricity billing system smart electricity billing system a technique is which is cost efficient and can reduce problems associated with billing and also reduces deployment of manpower for taking meter readings. Networked meterreading system consists of gsm based energy meter, power utility control centre pucc and gsm communication network. This paper aims at proposing a system that reduces the power loss and power theft due to illegal activities. The system design mainly concentrates on single phase electric distribution system, especially. Errors get introduced at every stage of energy billing, like. The interfacing of prepaid energy meter with gsm global system for mobile modem is very credible for both consumer and energy supply company. The reading is store in built in eeprom so at the power failure it continues the calculating reading. The dedicated gsm modem with sim card is required for each energy meter.
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