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( Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Fully Refereed International Journal ) Volume:04/Issue:06/June-2022 Impact Factor- 6.752 www.irjmets.com DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-PAID ELETRICITY BILLING SYSTEM AND POWER CONSERVATION USING RASPBERRY PI Syed Rizwan SK*1, Mohammed Saqlain*2, Shilpa R*3, Nitheesh NP*4, Mr. Chethan BR*5 *1,2,3,4Student, Dept. Electronics And Communication Engineering, PES Institute Of Technology And Management, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India. *5Assistant Professor, Dept. Electronics And Communication Engineering, PES Institute OfTechnology And Management, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India. ABSTRACT This paper proposes a real-time Raspberry Pi-based prepaid electricity billing meter to monitor household electrical appliances in real time. On behalf of the government, the electricity board releases benefits for the poor and above- poverty people in India. The proposed system has an intelligent energy distribution with fixed power supplied by the electricity board (ED). This system measures the voltage, current, power, and finally the number of units consumed by the customer. The electricity billing counters and to automatically limit the usage of electricity. This system also aims at proposing a system that will reduce the loss of power and revenue due to power theft and other illegal activities. If the low balance indicates an error and automatically cuts off the load, the customer consumes the units provided by the electricity board. The experimental setup has been successfully completed by using the Python 3 language on Raspbian OS. Keywords: Raspberry Pi 0W Processor, Energy Meter, Relay, Buzzer, LCD Display, And Mobile Phone. I. INTRODUCTION Power plays an important role in the world, and also, it is very important to control the theft of power. As a result, the power company will lose money. The Indian government has now made it mandatory to install an energy meter in each home in order to read consumed units and pay the monthly bill. is pre-paid and the second one is post-paid. Most of the time, the post-paid billing process is done. For benefits, the electricity department proposed and implemented the pre-paid electricity billing process, which is to pay the bill before the usage of electricity power. Large companies deal with the electricity board by paying the previous. That is the benefit for both (companies as well as the government). Now the electricity department has proposed a new idea and implemented it, which is a pre-paid billing system for below-poverty people who have less property. The government provides 100 free units to people living in poverty for one month, but they use all of them within 30 days and sometimes more. For this reason, the electricity board will get a loss. So to reduce the loss, the pre-paid billing system for below-poverty people was developed by using the Raspberry Pi 2 processor, GSM, Relay, and Current Transformer. By interfacing all the components, the billing system is developed to stop the current when the consumer consumes more than 100 units. When the unit count is down from 100 to 0, the raspberry pi 2 processor is observed and sends the signals to the buzzer by the relay. Then the count comes to zero, the buzzer gives the alarm, and the current is also stopped, and the information is issued to the consumer mobile and the electricity department by the GSM. This project proposes a real-time Raspberry Pi 2 based prepaid electricity billing meter to monitor industrial or household electrical appliances. This automated prepaid electricity meter is used to measure the voltage, current, power consumption by the appliances and finally the number of units consumed by the customer. The proposed system has an intelligent energy distribution with fixed power supplied by the electricity board (ED). The consumption of power varies from customer to customer; the variation of power consumption is monitored and controlled by an automated electricity billing system. Moreover, monitoring of home appliances is developed either manually, remotely, or with the help of GSM. The main objective of this project is to provide low-cost and flexible automated prepaid electricity meters. The electricity bill is automatically sent to the customer through the GSM Module and gives an alert message to the customer.
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[5786] e-ISSN: 2582-5208 International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology and Science ( Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Fully Refereed International Journal ) Volume:04/Issue:06/June-2022 Impact Factor- 6.752 www.irjmets.com II. METHODOLOGY
Fig 1: Block Diagram
The experimental setup is as shown in the above figure, which consists of a Raspberry PI 0W, energy meter, relay, buzzer, LCD display, web server, and mobile phone. This system consists of a controller (Raspberry Pi 0W), a 16*2 LCD display, an energy meter, and a relay. The energy meter is used to measure the amount of energy consumption. Thingspeak cloud is used to send the SMS to the user and update the server. The load is connected through the relay. The relay is used to switch (the relay acts as a fuse). This system is based on prepaid billing. If the balance is above the 10RS relay switches ON, the load is connected. If the balance is below the 10 Rs, the cloud notifies the user. If they recharge the balance, the power supply is connected to the load. If not, the relay switches off the supply. All the information like the amount of energy consumed and recharged, time, and date will be updated on the web server (IOT).
Fig 2: Flow Chart
Step1: start. Step2: Initialize Raspberry Pi 0W Device connected to the request. Step3: Assign the destination address to user server.
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[5787] e-ISSN: 2582-5208 International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology and Science ( Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Fully Refereed International Journal ) Volume:04/Issue:06/June-2022 Impact Factor- 6.752 www.irjmets.com Step4: checking the balance amount.Step5:.Sending notification to user. Step6: If balance is more than 10Rs supply the power. Step7: If balance is less than 10Rs send the notification to user to recharge. Step8: If it recharged supply the power else cut off the power supply. Step9: All this information data is update to the web server. III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Fig 3: Cloud Server
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IV. CONCLUSION Various electronic meters have been developed and are still being developed. However, the use of GSM in this particular system provides numerous advantages over methods that have been previously used. IOT is used in this system, that will help to see the amount of power consumption. This project implements the prepaid billing system. It means first we have to recharge the card. The power supply will be given to the user until there is a balance on the card. If the balance on the card is below the minimum, the power supply will automatically turn off. Alert SMS will be used to recharge. This entire data set will be stored on the server. Thus, this project explains the basic structure and system for IOT-based energy meter billing and monitoring systems. This artificially explains the basic blocks and components used in this system. The system is very helpful in avoiding power theft. In this system, consumers can do power management by knowing energy leakage from time to time. Using this system, we can provide a real-time bill monitoring system. V. REFERENCES [1] T .Narmada, “Design and Development of Raspberry Pi based System for Prepaid Electricity Meter” IEEE Xplore Digital Library.Nov 2017. [2] Nabil Mohammad, et.al, “A smart prepaid energy metering system to control electricity theft”, IEEE Xplore Digital Library. [3] Uwe Hansmann, Lothar Merk, Martin S. Nicklous and Thomas Stober, Pervasive Computing 2001. [4] Luo Yonggang,”The design of Prepayment Energy Meter ”, IEEE Xplore Digital Library. [5] M.Wassim Raad, “ A smart Card Based Prepaid Electricity system”, IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
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