Development of IOT based smart energy meter reading and monitoring system

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.