Smart Energy Meter Based, Prepaid Electricity Distribution System

  B.Radhika Yadav,  J.V.Sharma

Abstract- In case of omnipresent cellular communication and satellite TV systems activation of the user facility is done almost instantly on demand by using scratch card or other on line facilities whereas no such progress is made in respect of electrical energy consumption system. As a result both the consumer and provider are required to put up with the inherent problems of meter reading, billing, payments and receipts, disconnections and reactivations, delays and disputes there of etc., Therefore an innovative system is conceived and developed in this project. The main aim of the project is to design and develop an embedded system that can be attached to the existing digital energy meter at the user premises and establish communication and control between the consumer and service provider through GSM. The system would then accept authorized scratch card of different denominations for pre-paid activation of power supply, continuously monitors the units being consumed and disconnects the supply remotely when the entitled number of units are consumed. The supply can again be got restored by consumer by using a new scratch card. The system consists of an Energy Meter, integrated with ARM7 microcontroller, key pad, LCD display and GSM modules. GSM network is used to transmit the energy usage reading using Short Message Service (SMS). Current pulses from transformer in the meter are used for the energy measurement .

Keywords- Key words- GSM, SMS, LPC2148, Scratch card and software tool like keilμvision

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1502185
Page Number(s) - 1072-1077
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 2 | May 2015
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  B.Radhika Yadav,  J.V.Sharma,   "Smart Energy Meter Based, Prepaid Electricity Distribution System", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 2, pp.1072-1077, May 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1502185.pdf