Abstract:
In the most of the developing countries, the effort of collecting
electricity utility meter reading and detecting illegal usage of electricity is a very
difficult and time consuming task which requires a lot of human
resources.Energy meter reading and monitoring system using Internet of Things
(IoT) present an efficient and cost-effective way to transfer the information of
energy consumed by the consumer wirelessly as well asit provides facilities to
detect the illegal usage of the electricity.Aim of this study is to measure electricity
consumption in the household and generate its bill automatically using IoT and
telemetric communication techniques. Also this study aims to detect and control
the energy theft.The Arduino microcontroller is employed to coordinate the
activities with digital energy meter system and to connect the system to a WiFi
network and subsequently to the Internet and Server. A passive infrared sensor
is engagedwith the system to detect when anyillegal alteration happen in the
metering system. In such case, system will send an alert to the server as well
as it has the facility to disconnect and re-connect the electricity supply
automatically.The proposed system is capable of continuously monitor and
being notified about the number of units consumed to the energy provider and
consumer. The energy consumptions are calculated automatically and the bill is
updated on the internet by using a network of Internet of Things. This automation
can reduce the needs of the manual labours.
