GSM AND IOT FOR SMART ENERGY METER SYSTEM

ABSTRACT: - The use of communication in almost all the fields of power, gas and water
generation, distribution and billing has come of age. Here with the inclusion of power line
communication with the automation may lead to paradigm change in the current trend. The
design presents a new methodology for avoiding the high construction and maintenance costs in
the existing meter reading technology. Apart the use of meter reading with man power has
become need of the day but . The designed system avoids the human intervention in Power
Management. The Consumer has to pay the bill in time, if couldnt, the power connection may be
disconnected automatically from the remote server. It displays the corresponding billing
information on LCD and data is sent to the server through the PLC Module. The PIC
microcontroller based hardware system consists of a processor core board and the peripheral
board. The entire programming for microcontroller operation is based on Embedded C
Language. This system provides efficient meter reading, avoiding the billing error and reduces
the maintenance cost. This paper also addresses advantages of implementing the power line
communication module and design detail and discusses the advanced security of the data
communications.
Keywords:- power line communication , lcd, pic 18f46K22J Microcontroller.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
The present traditional billing system have many problems like problem of payment collection,
energy thefts etc. due to which the traditional billing system is slow, costly and unreliable The
present billing system has chances of error and it is also time or labor consuming.
SOLUTION
So it is essential to develop a billing system which solves the problem of billing manually and
also reduces the manpower.

WHY GSM AND WIFI COMMUNICATION

Pay for consumed energy

Keep customers on supply
Recover money owed (debt)
Lower overhead
No bill production
No bill distribution
No need to chase payments
No further actions such as disconnections
Social acceptability
Customer responsible for disconnection
No need to add extra connection
No problem in rural side
No problem of network for wireless communication in remote place
No need of monitoring the man power
Bribe based bill jumping or not disconnecting problem can be avoided
Distribution transformer health with respect to input, load, etc can also be monitored

IMPLEMENTION SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

The high level block diagram of the power line communication based meter reading system
consist of a pair of power line communication modulator and demodulator (modem) power
supply section supplies power to all other components with required Power. The pic 18f46K22
microcontroller module takes the data from the energy meter and performs the necessary control
operations like breaking the circuit through Relay control unit and the required information to the
billing unit through power line communication module The MAX-232 which in the peripheral
used as a logic level voltage converter in serial communication The user can obtain the status of
the energy consumption and the billed amount. Then it sends the commands to the
microcontroller section and the required information is sent to the user meter through plc if
consumer fails to pay the billed amount in time, the disconnection and reconnection can be done
by sending their corresponding commands to the controller. Whenever a request is obtained by
the user to the controller and the data has been sent the DC buzzer gives a beep sound as an
indication that a request has obtained and sends the data to the user and lcd is used to provide
visual information

BLOCK DIAGRAM CONSUMER SIDE

ENERGY METER

LOAD

CONNECT
/DISCONNECT
RELAY

BYPASS
DETECTION
SYSTEM

LCD16X2

BUZZER
MICROCONTROLLER
18F46K22

MAX232

GSM 900A

WIFI 802.11
WATT HOUR
BGN
METER

Meter configuration
Fus
e

Fus
e

S1 S2
L2 L1
Loa
d

NORMAL
UNIT

DETECTIO
N UNIT

HARDWARE SPECIFICATION

Pic 18f46k22j
Simcom 300 gsm modem
Bta12 triac
Watt hour meter

Max 232
Opto coupler
Lcd 16x2
Relay
Transformer 12v,1a
ESP 8266 WIFI

SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION

Embedded c
Proteus lab
Diptrace
Mikro c
Osa rtos
Terminal window
At command

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