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This document summarizes a student project to design a prepaid system for domestic energy meters. The system will use smart cards that consumers can purchase with preloaded credit at local shops. When inserted into the meter, the card transfers its stored value which is decremented based on energy usage. An alarm warns when credit is low and power is cut off when usage exceeds the prepaid amount. Block and circuit diagrams are provided along with advantages like conservation, unauthorized usage prevention, and easy pay-as-you-go billing. The project aims to advance conventional metering technology.

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Energy Meter

This document summarizes a student project to design a prepaid system for domestic energy meters. The system will use smart cards that consumers can purchase with preloaded credit at local shops. When inserted into the meter, the card transfers its stored value which is decremented based on energy usage. An alarm warns when credit is low and power is cut off when usage exceeds the prepaid amount. Block and circuit diagrams are provided along with advantages like conservation, unauthorized usage prevention, and easy pay-as-you-go billing. The project aims to advance conventional metering technology.

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FUTURE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

PREPAID SYSTEM FOR DOMESTIC ENERGY METER

By: AATREYI BAL ARINDAM BOSE SAIKAT MAJUMDER TANAYA BOSE (4th year, ECE)

Under Guidance of: ASST. PROF. SREYA CHAKRABARTI Department of Electronics and Communication Future Institute of Engineering and Management

1. INTRODUCTION
A scheme of Electricity billing system called "PREPAID ENERGY METER WITH TARIFF INDICATOR" can facilitate in improved cash flow management in energy utilities and can reduces problem associated with billing consumer living in isolated area and reduces deployment of manpower for taking meter readings. It is an advantageous concept for the future. In this project, we will design a prepaid system for the domestic energy meter. This advancing technology overheads the conventional digital meters at home. Electricity coupons will be available at nearby shops. Maximum units to be used are programmed. This data is given to Microcontroller. Microcontroller is connected to digital energy meter. MCU is programmed to decrease the maximum units as a response to the information from the digital energy meter. Buzzer is used to warn the user. When maximum use is made, relay will cut off and controller has to be reset.

2. WORKING PRINCIPLE
Every consumer can buy a memory card (is nothing but an EEPROM IC) with a password stored inside it using a MC program. The memory card is available at various ranges (i.e. Rs.50, Rs.100, Rs.200 etc.).In our project we have given the name for memory card as smart card. When the consumer inserts a smart card into the card reader which is connected kit. Then the card reader will read the stored information and delete the information from the EEPROM IC (smart card) using the MC program, so that the smart card cannot be reused by others. Suppose if a consumer buys a card for Rs.50/- he/she can insert this amount through the card reader so that prepaid energy meter with tariff indicator kit will be activated. According to the power consumption the amount will be reduced. When the amount is over, the relay will automatically shut down the whole system. In our project we also have a provision to give an alarm sound to consumer before the whole amount is reduced. Here's the procedure to create the cards. How to program a new card: For making a unit price card for Rs.2.50 1. Insert the card into the Programmer 2. Dial 1*0250# The format is 1 for unit price * For start process - Higher digit of the unit price - Lower digit of the unit price - Higher digit of the unit paisa - Lower digit of the unit paisa 3. The red led will blink for every key press 4. If the programming done successfully then the Green led will long blink finally. 5. If it fails then the RED led will give a long blink

For making a Recharge card for Rs.400 1. Insert the card into the Programmer 2. Dial 2*0400# 3. The red led will blink for every key press 4. If the programming done successfully then the Green led will long blink finally. 5. If it fails then the RED led will give a long blink.

3. BLOCK DIAGRAM

Power Supply

Display

Meter Unit

Interrupt Signal Detector

MCU

Relay Driver

Relay

To Load

EEPROM

Fig 3.1: Block Diagram of Main Functional Circuit

Power Supply

Progress Indication MCU

Keypad

Card Reader Socket

Memory Element (EEPROM)

Fig 3.2: Block Diagram of Memory Element Programming Circuit

4. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

Fig 4.1: Main Circuit Diagram

Fig 4.2: (A) Card Programmer Circuit Diagram. (B) EEPROM Connection Scheme

5. ADVANTAGES
This project has several advantages: 1. Conservation of energy. 2. Alert against unauthorized of the power supply. 3. Pay as per use. 4. Easy billing system.

6. CONCLUSION
1. This project has various other aspects which have scope of up gradation. 2. Immense future prospect.

7. REFERENCES
1. Handbook for Electricity Metering, Tenth Edition by The Edison Electric Institute. 2. The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems Using Assembly and C, Second Edition by Mazidi, Mazidi and McKinlay, 3. http://www.scribd.com 4. http://www.8051projects.info 5. http://www.8051projects.net 6. http://www.alldatasheets.com

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