International Journal of Digital Communication and Networks (IJDCN)
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2016
Hi-Tech Energy Meter with Automatic Load
Control
Dr.G.SRIDHAR1 , HARIKRISHNAN C.K2, RENJITH R3, VINU4
Abstract— Now an afternoon’s automatic is in each subject,
although there are numerous places automation has been
emerged and efficiently implemented however nevertheless the
carrier issuer for energy nonetheless makes use of traditional
methods for getting the energy fed on through man or woman
consumer. This approach could be very time consuming and
un-not pricey and can cause human errors. Our proposed
system (AMR) will routinely ship the data of the digital
electricity meter to the service provider with the help the assist
of the GSM modem as soon as in an afternoon and for this
reason the machine will record the carrier issuer as soon as in a
via SMS. The equal machine may be used to test the ultimate
analyzing consumed via the client, when demanded by means of
person through the same GSM modem. The tool can also be
used to govern the load from each the ends that is (person –
provider provider) with the help of relay circuit and device can
also be provided with an lcd show which update the clients with
distinct data’s concerning tariff exchange or sudden electricity
cut.
Index Terms— AMR, GPS, LCD, ENERGYMETER
I. INTRODUCTION
Energy is the driving force behind the improvement of
any India. With the rapid boom in residential, commercial,
and industrial customers of power for the duration of the
world, it has now grow to be imperative for utilities
businesses to plot better, non-intrusive, environmentally-safe
strategies of gauging utilities intake in order that accurate
bills can be generated and invoiced. Historically, the energy
meters are installed on purchaser’s premises and the
consumption records is accumulated through meter-readers
on their fortnightly or monthly visits to the premises. This
approach of gauging power intake has the following dangers:
(i) sometimes the meters are established inside people’s
homes and, if the patron is not at home, the meter-reader
cannot file the fortnightly or monthly intake and then the
utilities ‘agency has to motel to considering the average
invoice-quantity of the preceding months as a trademark of
the possibly intake for the modern month. These
consequences in burden for both customer and the power
Paper Received Jan 16
Dr.G.Sridhar, Assistant Professor, Department of EIE, PSN College of
Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli,
C.K.Harikrishnan, Student, Department of EIE, PSN College of
Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli,
R.Renjith, Student, Department of EIE, PSN College of Engineering and
Technology, Tirunelveli,
Vinu, Student, Department of EIE, PSN College of Engineering and
Technology, Tirunelveli,
deliver organization. may be the patron has no longer
utilized similar quantity of electricity and the cutting-edge
month as inside the preceding months for motives including,
holidaying someplace else or being in the sanatorium, etc. for
the duration of the month, and sending him a invoice for a
bigger quantity based totally on his history of energy
consumption mat bring about his/her financial complication.
This method of billing is also no longer appropriate for the
Strength Supply Corporation as it gives inaccurate within the
patron’s vicinity and might ultimately bring about errors in
future planning through the enterprise. (ii) Hiring of some of
meter readers by means of utilities’ agencies and imparting
manner of transportation to them is an pricey burden on the
companies’ budgets. Moreover, these site visitors of the may
additionally use vehicles to attain the purchaser’s premises,
generate pollution inside the air which has terrible impact on
the surroundings and the greenhouse effect. (iii)
Dissatisfaction of some customers who can also recollect
meter-readers’ front to their houses as some kind of invasion
of their privateness. that is in particular applicable in
villages, in which at some point of the day most men are
outside in their houses incomes a living and only girls are at
doing the home tasks. (iv) The meter readers might also
make a few mistake in reading the ate up unit with a purpose
to cause fake billing due to human error.
The SMS has extended their provider to content material
carriers to supply a huge of offerings to cellular telephone
customers. SMS is one of the convenient imply of verbal
exchange particularly for reminder, notification and a short
notice while the cell telephone user is not count on to answer
or reply right now. With the advancement and booming of
ICT and net technology makes on line records system
application consisting of e-trade are structures using power
Line provider (p.c) communications, Bluetooth and ZigBee
were evolved to cope with the above point out issues, but the
above referred to AMR are both brief in operating remote and
nevertheless require some intervention of human operators
or at risk of errors and reliability trouble because of noise and
poor electricity high-quality within the transmission line,
greater importantly the above stated method does not allow
manage. With the rapid improvement of global device mobile
(GSM) infrastructure and statistics verbal exchange
technology (ICT) within the beyond two many years has
made wi-fi automatic meter studying gadget greater
dependable and viable. The GSM power Meter analyzing and
manage (GPMC) device takes advantage of the available
GSM infrastructure nationwide coverage in the u . s . and the
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short Messaging gadget (SMS) cellular broadcasting
function to request and retrieve man or woman homes and
constructing power wirelessly and the manipulate system
will monitor the power of the home equipment which
consumes more power than its predefined limit the manage
gadget will manipulate the power by means of way of various
techniques for special types of hundreds like resistive and
inductive load so that you can reduce un important strength
intake of home equipment and to store the power at the equal
time the strength issuer can connect or disconnect the power
deliver to the house is there is an irregularity in the charge of
the energy consumed invoice with the help of the same GSM
modem. The followings are the targets of the studies mission
to make certain it meets the purpose.
• To design a circuit which constantly monitors the meter
reading and sends the message to consumer and power
department?
• To layout a mechanism to be able to video display units
and controls the strength of home equipment from both ends.
a message. The device will also comprise a display machine
with a speaker on the way to document today's facts to the
clients.
Fig. 1 Block diagram of proposed system
III.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
An LED display with a speaker that allows you to document
the present day updates to the consumers concerning tariffs
and if there's an surprising strength reduce. The GSM
modem will file to the service issuer modem on daily basis
and at the end of the month evaluation of the strength fed on
is carried out price lists and vats are covered and bill are sent
to the clients tell of mail SMS and hardcopy in the billing
address supplied via the clients.
II. PROPOSED WORK
To enforce this device, an ARM controller or an % based
board is used. Module, UART module to interface a GSM
modem and power meter. The power meter is having a LED
which blinks for a particular range of instances to signify the
strength ate up (e.g.1 Unit = 1600 pulses). these pulses are
fed to ARM based system which is programmed to count
these pulses. The system reads these pulses it increments the
inner counter through one that indicates the variety of
gadgets ate up. The system additionally consists of a relay
circuit and an lcd display that's interfaced with the modem
and the manipulate circuit as proven in discern 1.Now, when
the service issuer sends a message to examine the electricity
meter facts, GSM modem, that is related through UART
interface, interrupts ARM. This reasons ARM to read the
wide variety of units burnt and sends the information to the
UART. further, the UART sends the statistics to GSM
modem which sends this meter studying records to provider
provider. on the cease of the month the full unit consumed is
detected, tariffs are covered and sent to the clients in varieties
of SMS, electronic mail, and hardcopy of bill to the deal with
of the consumer. If now, the service provider detects that the
message could be despatched by means of the provider
provider, which ends up in disconnection of electricity
deliver is going further to domestic/workplace thru a relay
circuit, that's again controlled by means of ARM gadget or
the p.c. The carrier provider can now inform the purchaser
concerning the present day invoice or popularity using the
customer’s registered cellphone wide variety by way of either
Fig.2 Proposed system
The complete device over view of the device is proven
inside the fig.2 the whole machine is made up of GSM energy
meter (GPM) in each purchaser unit and SMS gateway,
software terminal information base server email server
printer server and e-server installed at the dispensed website
the system is operating along side GSM network to retrieve
power meter analyzing the use of SMS. The GPM is a single
segment virtual KWh which makes use of the GSM network
to send the energy utilization studying back to the energy
provider wirelessly once in a day via SMS gateway. The
purchaser also can check the latest studying of the strength
meter in shape of SMS when demanded via the users. A sim
card with the specific service no is required for the GPM to
acquire and respond it’s to the strength provider the unique
carrier no. sim card is work comparable with the mobile
telephone no: except it isn't meant for voice service. The sim
card is likewise used to become aware of and retrieve the
purchaser info from the statistics base server for billing
motive. The fig 2. indicates the structure of the system inside
the service provider’s give up. on the stop of the month the
entire unit ate up is detected, price lists are included and sent
to the customers in form of SMS, email, and hardcopy of
invoice to the deal with of the user. The identical above meter
can also be used to govern the burden. If the client desires to
manage the burden from the some distance stop they could do
it with the help the above GSM modem. The distributors can
also manipulate the weight from the a ways give up with the
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help of the same GSM modem if the customer fails to pay the
money on time. all the load manage is made possible with the
assist of relay connecter to the meter. This device will even
have an lcd display and a speaker interfaced with the modem
with the assist of ARM controller or the p.c to be able to show
the essential message cut or facts concerning tariff to the
client.
IV HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION
A massive a part of the venture concerned selecting an
appropriate hardware components to take the meter
analyzing from the meter and ship it to user and to server
remotely and to control the energy consumption and offer a
wireless hyperlink. The preliminary idea turned into to
search for an all-in-one answer that would have all the
components incorporated, making an allowance for the
smallest size viable. to begin with it changed into concept
that a easy circuit could be constructed and connected to a
microprocessor to control the energy. however the cost of the
circuit with microprocessor is very excessive. It become
determined that designing a simple circuit, whit the assist of
the microcontroller and would offer correct power
controlling and the size of meter studying. the subsequent
sections describe the research process in addition to the
implementation become achieved in Eagle 6.0 which is
having the facility of PCB layout print. it can additionally be
designed with % whilst being utilized in commercial
automation reason nevertheless paintings is in commercial
automation cause still work is in progress in this subject so
that proper interfacing can be received with maximum
efficiency and much less fee.
V SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION
Fig 4. Server side flowchart
VI RESULT
The undertaking is having the facility of getting the meter
studying at any time by way of the patron request. The
message that is send by using the consumer to the energy
meter and the patron receives the existing analyzing in his
cellular smartphone as show inside the following image. at
the cease of the month the patron will obtain a mail, revealed
difficult reproduction inside the postal address mentioned
and SMS in his cellular telephone concerning al
approximately bill details.
According to the hardware circuit design features, meter
reading terminal program flowchart was introduced as
shown in fig 3. and fig .4 When receiving the command,
meter send the current status along with the energy
consumption.
Fig.5 SMS send to meter side from customer
Fig 3: Meter side flowchart
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Fig.6 SMS received by customer from meter
The device designed reduces the efforts of manual records
series of energy meter. also, information which is acquired at
provider issuer facet is simple to manipulate for invoice
technology and other such obligations. With this device we
can accumulate the analyzing in addition to manage the
supply to the user. With addition of software program at
carrier provider side, the patron may be informed of
cutting-edge meter reading, bill for modern-day cycle,
popularity of the line and different parameters to the client
with both message and a telephone name.
VII CONCLUSION
A complete working prototype of this machine is being
performed to illustrate an automatic power meter studying
the usage of the GSM community. The machine takes the
advantage of the present GSM infrastructure which have
clearly full coverage of all housing and constructing location
across the us of a which cause low infrastructure
Implementations fee, simple and smooth set up of GSM
electricity meter at client web page as GSM. power meter is
no one of a kind from current analogue or virtual meter
installation the complete E billing device assist in smooth
billing and handing over of the invoice in from of SMS,
email and revealed hardcopy the system is effective reliable
and efficient wi-fi computerized energy meter analyzing with
computerized load manipulate. for this reason it reduces the
operation price and human operator meter analyzing,
making the gadget error loose with the assist of the GSM
modem, the simplest disadvantage with the device is that it
way on occasion leads to slow transport of message to the
distribution aspect GSM modem.
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