Special Issue - 2020 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)

ISSN: 2278-0181
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Smart Energy Meter and Monitoring System

using IoT
Naziya Sulthana1* Prakyathi N Y3
Students, Dept. of E&TE Students, Dept. of E&TE
Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology
Tumakuru, India Tumakuru, India

Rashmi N2 Bhavana S4
Students, Dept. of E&TE Students, Dept. of E&TE
Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology
Tumakuru, India Tumakuru, India

K B Shiva Kumar5
Professor, Dept. of E&TE
Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology
Tumakuru, India

Abstract— The effort of collecting electricity utility meter IoT. The Arduino esp8266 micro controller is programmed
reading. Internet of Things (IoT) present an efficient and co- toper form the objectives with the help of GSM module. It is
effective to transfer the information of energy consumer proposed to overcome all the disadvantages in the already
wirelessly as well as it provides to detect the usage of the existing energy meter. All the details are sent to the consumer’s
electricity the main intention of this project is measure electricity
consumption in home appliances and generate it's bill
mobile through the IoT and the GSM module and it is also
automatically using IoT. The energy grid needs to be displayed in the LCD. It is a time savings and it helps to
implemented in a distributed topology that can eliminate the human interference using IoT.
dynamically absorb different energy sources. IoT can be utilized Devadhanishini et al., [2] “Smart Power Monitoring Using
for various applications of the smart grid with distributed energy IoT” that energy Consumption is the very important and
plant meter, energy generation and energy consumption meter challenging issue. Automatic Electrical Energy meter is used in
smart meter, energy demand side management and various area large electric energy distribution system. The integration of the
of energy production. Arduino WIFI and SMS provides the system as Smart Power
Monitoring system. Smart energy meter provides data for
Keywords— Smart Grid, Energy Meter, Internet of Things.
optimization and lessthe power consumption. This system also
I. INTRODUCTION includes a motion sensor such that if there is no human in house
The energy consumption can be monitored by using an or house it will automatically turn off the power supply.
electric device called energy meter. The cost and the regular Mohammed Hosseiu et al., [3] presented a paper titled
usage of Power consumption are informed to the user to “Design and implementation of smart meter using IoT”
overcome high bill usage. The Energy meter shows the amount describing the growth of IoT and digital technology. The future
of units consumed and transfers the data to both the customer energy grid needs to be implemented in a distributed topology
and to the electrical board so this helps in reducing man-power. that can dynamically absorb different energy sources. IoT can
The user can check their Power usage from anywhere and at be utilized for various applications of the smart grid consisting
any time interval. The IoT is used to Turn on/off the household power consumption, smart meter, electric power demand side
appliances using relay and Arduino interfacing. The objective management and various area of energy production. In this
of this system is to monitor the amount of electricity consumed. paper, the Smart Energy Metering(SEM) is explained as the
The distributer and the consumer both will be benefitted by main purpose of SEM is necessary for collecting information
eventually reducing the total Power consumption. on energy consumption of household appliances and monitor
the environmental parameters and provide the required services
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
to home users.
Anitha et al., [1] proposed “Smart energy meter surveillance
Himanshu K Patel et al., [4] demonstrated “Arduino based
using IoT” about IoT, internet of things as an emerging field
smart energy meter” that removes human intervention in meter
and IoT based devices have created a revolution in electronics
readings and bill generation thereby reducing the error that
and IT. The foremost objective of this project is to create
usually causes in India. The system consists the provision of
awareness about energy consumption and. efficient use of home
sending an SMS to user for update on energy consumption
appliances for energy savings. Due to manual work, existing
along with final bill generation along with the freedom of reload
electricity billing system has major drawbacks. This system
via SMS. The disconnection of power supply on demand or due
will give the information on meter reading, power cut when
power consumption exceeds beyond the specified limit using

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to pending dues was implemented using a relay. The system

employs GSM for bidirectional communication.
Bibek Kanti Barman, et al., [5] proposed “smart meter using
IoT” on efficient energy utilization plays a very vital role for
the development of smart grid in power system. Hence proper
monitoring and controlling of power consumption is a main
priority of the smart grid. The energy meter has many problems
associated to it and one of the key problems is there is no full
duplex communication to solve this problem, a smart energy
meter is proposed based on Internet of Things. The smart
energy meter controls and calculate the consumption of energy
using ESP 8266 12E, a Wi-Fi module and send it to the cloud
from where the consumer or customer can observe the reading.
Therefore, energy examine has been
by the consumer becomes much easier and controllable.
This system also helps in detecting energy loss. Thus, this smart
meter helps in home automation using IoT.
Garrab et al., [6] proposed AMR approach for energy
saving in Smart Grids using Smart Meter and partial Power
Line Communication” on the raising demand of energy. Smart
Fig.1 Smart energy meter
meters are one of the proposed solutions for the Smart Grid. In
this article, an AMR solution which gives detailed end-to-end
Energy meter used here is clamp energy meter .230V AC
application. It is based on an energy meter with low-power
mains is the input given to the transformer and AC mains is
microcontrollerMSP430FE423A and the Power Line
converted to low voltage.
Communication standards. The microcontroller includes an
Energy meter measures the live current, voltage and power
energy metering module ESP430CEl.
in terms of KW-h. Microcontroller reads these parameters and
Landi et al., [7] presented "ARM-based Energy
send it to the cloud. NodeMCU is a Wi-Fi device which has a
management system using smart meter and Web server about a
microcontroller in it. This connects the local router through IoT.
low-cost real-time ARM-based energy management system.
The status of these parameters can be obtained through mobile
An integrated Web Server helps to collect the statistics of
or laptop.
energy consumptions, power quality and is to interface devices
WIFI is used for data communication. WIFI is configured
for load displacement. The device is used to access the
with Arduino.
information. In this way it is possible to manage the power
The Data from the Energy meter is sent to Arduino and to
consumption of the power system leading to a consumption of
WIFI module and it reaches the users mobile phone. In this
power.
system the user can switch on/off the mains or home appliances
Koay et al., [8] explained "Design and implementation of
from their Android smart phone app. The WIFI module trans
Bluetooth energy meter" described around the year 2004,
and receives the data from cloud and sends to Arduino and the
digital meter has started to replace the electromechanical meters
Arduino controls the relay to switch on and off the circuit of the
in Singapore. A wireless digital power meter would offer
home [8-9].
greater convenience to the meter reading task. Bluetooth
technology is a possible wireless solution to this issue. The A. Transformer
power reader can collect the power consumption reading from Selecting a suitable transformer is of great importance. The
the energy meter wirelessly based on Bluetooth. Two methods current rating and the secondary voltage of transformer is a key
that can retrieve the meter reading with little human factor. The current rating of the Transformer depends on the
intervention, are added and implemented in the targeted current needed for the load to be driven. The input voltage to
applications, they are Automatic meter reading(AMR) and the the 7805 IC should be at least 2 volt greater than the required 2
Automatic polling mechanism(APM). Some commercial volt output; therefore it requires an input voltage at least close
applications are applied for the Bluetooth-enabled energy to 7V. So, a 6-0-6V transformer with current rating of 500mA
meter. is use.
III. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
The smart energy meter monitoring system is shown in
figure 1. The block diagram consists of Arduino, energy meter,
WIFI module and IoT, Relay and transformer.

Fig.2 Transformers

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B. Relay F. Final Hardware

Relay is the three terminal high voltage (NC, C and NO)
devices which connect to control. Relay also has three pins with
low voltage (ground Vcc and signal) which connect to the
Arduino. Relay is a 120-240 switches are connected inside to
an electro magnet.

Fig.6. project model

Fig.3 Relay Modules The PIR sensor used in this hardware setup senses the
human motion and Arduino information. It sends signal to relay
C. Energy Meter
and relay will cut of the power. The system operated through
Energy meter is the meter which is used
software application which consists of API read, read will
for measuring the energy utilized by electric load. The energy
interact with the user. Thing Speak is an open source
is the total power consumed and utilized by the load at
application and API to store and retrieve the data.
a particular interval of time.

IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

Fig.4 Energy Meter Module

D. Wi-Fi Module
Wi-Fi module delivers highly integrated WI-FI solution to
meet users for continuous demand of efficient power usage.
Fig.6 Expected Results

Here the graph is plotted between time and power units. It

shows the energy consumption for a user at a time. Power
consumed by the user reaches 90% then alert message will sent
to the user [12].
V. CONCLUSIONS
Fig.5 Wi-Fi Module Smart energy monitoring system includes Arduino, WI-FI,
E. Internet of Things energy meter. The system automatically reads the energy meter
Internet of Things (IoT) links anything from anywhere in and provides home automation through an app developed and
the universe. It communicates with almost everything around power management done through this application. The
the world. The communication can be a control signal or proposed system consumes less energy and it will reduce
identified data from this world. It is a common internet data manual work.
communication and is communicated in different ways. The We can receive monthly energy consumption from a remote
Internet of Things (IoT) collects the data of automated objects location directly to centralize office. In this way we reduce
and helps the machine learn where it needs. The data is stored human effort needed to record the meter reading which are till
in cloud and sends to the energy meter to switch on/off objects. now recorded by visiting the home individually.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are very grateful to experts for their valuable
suggestions to improve this paper.

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