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A Smart Electronics Energy Measurement,

Monitoring, Billing and Payment System using IoT
P.M anikandan G.Ramesh Shashank Naidu .K
Department of ECE Department of ECE Department of ECE
Kalasalingam Academy of Research Kalasalingam Academy of Research Kalasalingam Academy of Research
and Education and Education and Education
Krishnankoil, India Krishnankoil, India Krishnankoil, India
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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U.Kartheek R.V.Sai Prem Y.Siva Sai Reddy

Department of ECE Department of ECE Department of ECE
Kalasalingam Academy of Research Kalasalingam Academy of Research Kalasalingam Academy of Research
and Education and Education and Education
Krishnankoil, India Krishnankoil, India Krishnankoil, India
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Abstract—In India and many developi ng countries, building, unable to keep track of the electricity usage day
electrical power usage has been calculated manually by wise and unable to control the load usage remotely to save
observing the number of units in electrical power the power. Also, the consumers are facing lot of issues
meter. Electrical power consumption bill amount is
while paying the b ills like sometimes they will forget to pay
calculated manually and updated to the user as well as
the bill and the electricity connection will get terminated.
Electric board data base. The users need to pay the bill
against the calculated amount, and it can be pai d by Also, there is no mechanis m to find the devices wh ich one
direct cash or digital transacti on. This conventional consuming the power. So met imes they will fo rget to switch
system invol ved more human resources . It has more off the devices once their needs over. This leads to increase
chance for wrong calcul ations. Thus, the cost is too the unwanted and sometime accidents may happen or device
expensi ve, and the process takes too long. We proposed may get damaged. The solution to all of these problems is
a system to allow consumers and service provi ders
to monitor the power usage of heavy loads continuously and
measure power usage, calcul ate bills for mini mizing
unnecessary power usage, and make remote bill remotely, which will be held to ensure accurate billing, h igh
payments in order to avoi d falling into this trap. This demand, minimizing the power wastage and low-cost
study introduces the i dea of an IoT (Internet of Things) acquisition. These are all factors that should be considered
enabled digital EB (Electricity bill) meter. The in designing an efficient energy billing system.
proposed system is developed using Arduino because it IoT based smart energy meter system was proposed for
consumes less power, is faster and has two UARTs building automation system to improve the quality build ing
(uni versal asynchronous recei ver-transmitter). Power
automation and integrating the energy management system
transformers are used to calcul ate voltage and current
level. Arduino control converts data into power unit [1]. A Smart energy meter system for customer was
using some simple calcul ations. Users can monitor the developed, it measures the power consumption and sending
power usage, recharge, and pay the bill using androi d the warning message to the customer’s mobile phone when
app or web page. The energy consumpti on is calculated they have reached to the allotted power capacity through
conti nuously and if the user’s electricity account (Global System for Mobile Communication) GSM [2].
balance reaches a low-level; warning will be gi ven to Intelligent energy meter was developed using Arduino Mega
the user. The electricity will be terminate d when the
available balance is less than the unit charge. which monitors the units of power usage continuously and
sends the power consumption data to web server using
Ethernet Shield. These data are used to generate bill and
Keywords— Digital Energy Meter, web based electrical load
control, Smart billing system, Energy monitoring, Internet of find variations on the power usage [3].
Things In-depth investigation was done on the numerous
power measuring gadgets now on the market as well as
I. INT RODUCT ION
methods for learning how to read meters easily. The
The usage of electricity is increasing in the world day by quantity of electricity consumed by a ho me, co mpany, or
day since electrical appliances and electronics gadgets are electrical item is measured by a power meter, also known as
the part of every human life. So, the demand for electrical an electrical energy meter. Each client building has an
power is very huge. Also, the effective way of power electric meter installed, wh ich displays the units of
distribution and effective usage of electrical energy are electricity used for b illing. The meters in use right now
existing electricity billing system, electricity bill amount is measure in kWh units. [4-6].
calculated manually by visiting and referring meters in each

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The mechanical rotation caused by magnetic induction monthly meter readings thanks to this method without
is the basis on which the conventional power meter having to go door-to-door. This can be done by using an
operates. It has numerous dental wheels as well as the Arduino device that continuously monitors and logs
Freewheel, an alu minu m wheel that revolves. The other readings from energy meters in its fixed (permanent)
wheels rotate as a result of the Freewheels rotation, which is memo ry. Live meter readings can be requested to be shown
dependent on the power flow. The d isplay portion will on a customer web page, and this programmed continuously
convert this to the appropriate values. Mechanical flaws and records measurements. When necessary, this technology can
failures are co mmon because there are so many mechanical also be used to turn off the home's power supply.
components involved. The likelihood of fraud and present Since IoT is relat ively expensive compared to SMS,
theft will be very high. low power meter monitoring is quite imp lementable. Daily
The Digital Micro Technology (DMT) foundation power consumption details can be generated and monitored
underlies the Electronic Energy Meter, which has no through internet (either users Android app or users web
moving parts. Hence, the EEM is referred to as the "Static site). Also, android users can pay their electricity bills on
Energy Meter". ASIC (Application Specified Integrated their android system. Non-android users can see the reports
Circuit), a specially created IC controls the precise about daily power usage on the website and they can pay the
performance of EEM. The same ASIC is now used in bills. The system is reliable and accurate the learning values
Washing Machines, Air Conditioning, Automotive, Dig ital collected in the energy meter. Live power meter read ings
Camera etc. [7]. can be viewed with the Android app. Also, readings can be
The conventional and most of the existing systems various viewed online. Hu man hard wo rk is avoided, and all values
shortfalls such as are stored on a central server. The co mmunication system is
 Conventional energy meter is mechanical based secure and interference with electricity meters can be easily
energy meter. So, it g ives the approximated reading detected. In the event of a system erro r, the average server
and there is more possibility to vary the readings value will not be updated. If the updated value exceeds the
externally. time limit , the system can determine if there is something
 They have no options to monitor the power usage wrong with the system and can report developers to EB.
and corresponding bill amount every time. It means Thus, diagnosing an error becomes easier. The bills against
power consumption units will be generated for power usage are availab le on a central website, it can be
every billing period. So, it’s very difficu lt to reduce accessible from anywhere in the world by anytime.
the power usage significantly.
Our proposed IoT based electronic energy meter addresses
the problems of consumers and distribution
companies/government agencies . IoT is a recent technology
this is used recently in the design and development of
various systems to monitor and control the various electrical
and non-electrical parameters through internet using
different wireless technology [8]-[10]. Th is paper talks a lot
about an intelligent energy meter, which uses embedded
system features namely a co mbination of hardware and
software to imp lement the functionality as customer
required.

II. PROPOSED SYST EM

Our proposed system uses the electronics energy meter,
Wi-Fi modules, GSM, Web server, Billing/Pay ment
Application and Arduino microcontrollers as shown in fig.1.
Many monitoring or controlling devices are designed using
microcontroller with various sensors, wireless technologies
and output display devices [11]-[18]. With the use of a Wi-
Fi module (ESP Board) the consumer and the service
provider will receive a power reading of the appropriate Figure 1. Block Diagram
value, when they reach their maximu m value, which they
have set. And with the help of a Wi-Fi modem the consumer Microcontroller is the heart unit of this process.
can monitor the readings they have used and can set a limit Only the device can mon itor and control all sensors and
on the web page. The electricity department can read actuators. Here we use the Arduino uno development board

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as a microcontroller unit. User-friendly user upgrades have

more prospects compared to the base commonly known as Prototype and interconnection of the proposed system
8051. The Arduino controller has an internal ICSP is shown in fig. 2. This prototype imp lemented with 4
programming mode that simplifies editing tasks. The lamps as the loads. When power is on it will take a few
Arduino controller has a built-in analog-to-digital dig ital seconds to power the microcontroller un it and the
conversion register, a clean electrical system memory and a controller will launch the liquid crys tal display module and
heartbeat production module. The SIM800L is a low-cost display the title on the display, after that display starts to
portable GSM module. The module connects to a UART display the readings about the load usage as shown in fig.3.
protocol that does not require more than two PINs. Baud Once LCD activated, power usage data sent to the server
rate-based communicat ion to speed up the process. Some using ESP module. Meanwhile the received data displayed
of the startup commands are pre-configured for Arduino on the website as shown in fig. 4. Also, the website has
controls. After receiving the powerful control module, it designed to have the control panel to control the loads. The
will turn on GPRS using different AT commands. user can control the loads and check the status of the
Relay is an electro-magnetic switch, it is used to turn system online. Recent results stored on the site for the user
on or off the power source. The operating voltage of the to view specific data on the website. Status indicators show
controller is not sufficient to control the relay driver. load status, and each widget card does the same
Transistor based switching circuit will open the module
transmitted using TTL logic voltage levels. Potential and
current transformers are used to sense and calculate the
load voltage and current level. An accurate converter is
used to convert one current into a direct analog current
voltage. The voltage level is supplied by a microcontroller.
Figure 3. LED Display
The controller converts the electric source to digital and
displays it using a liquid crystal display.
After the controller is enabled, it will launch the liquid
crystal display and ESP module after wh ich it will connect
the server and download the data to the server. The internal
memo ry of the controller ROM has a minimu m amount of
balance that is restored and stored in a global variable in
system memo ry. If the balance is above the limit the
controller checks the status of the switching condition. If
both the balance is valid and the simu ltaneous switch is
enabled, then the transmission is enabled for power
activation. The controller updates the power measurements
once every five seconds of the time interval. In the event of
any changes in the balance or unit the controller pushes the
Figure 3. Website page with reading data and control panel
data to the web server.
IV. CONCLUSION
III. RESULT S AND DISCUSSION
The proposed system displays the load voltage,
current, date and time. Th is system has the provision to
control the load remotely through website which helps to
save the unwanted power usage. Power consumption data
periodically updated on the web server whenever unit of
power consumed by the load and added to the account.
This system aims to provide a general power meter
infrastructure used for a s mart city concept. Great future
developments will make power meter readings, disruptive
diagnostic techniques, and connections and disconnections
and pre-existing informat ion that gives users everything
that will happen on the Wi-Fi network. Th is system will be
easier for electricity board power consumption and billing
management system in India . A lso, easy to integrate the
Figure 2. Final Prototype billing and pay ment systems with the proposed system. So,

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