Wireless Energy Meter And Billing Via Sms

Our system provides the electricity readings on an lcd screen as well as can sms this reading and cost in rupees to the user.

Wireless energy meter and billing via sms.

Digital energy meters maintain their accuracy over a larger current range than the mechanical meter. The same data is sent through gsm modem to the electricity department via sms. Billing via sms. Watt hour meter or energy meter is an instrument which measures amount of electrical energy used by the consumers.

Introduction to gsm network gsm global system for mobile communication gsm has been the backbone of the phenomenal success of mobile communication in the previous decade. One on lcd display and the second on. In this wireless energy meter gsm modem sim sends message to the registered mobile number user mobile number has to be registered to get the electricity bill via sms for every regular time interval. The reading is store in built in eeprom so at the power failure it.

Citeseerx document details isaac councill lee giles pradeep teregowda. Gsm based monthly energy meter billing via sms fig 1 gsm based monthly energy meter billing via sms 8. Now at the dawn of true broadband services. The project allows a two way reading.

The microcontroller then processes these pulses according the program written in it to calculate the units consumed and cost involved. This system is a boon for remote monitoring and automatic tariff updating. Thus we can check electricity bill in our registered mobile itself by staying anywhere even though we are far away from residential areas. Wireless energy meter and billing via sms p v.

This lets the user know about his exact electricity units consumed and cost directly from his meter so that there is no chance of bill tampering. The arduino takes the pulse from the energy meter calculate units and displays the reading on the lcd. The existing traditional method for retrieving the energy meter data and billing is not convenient and time consuming hence in this paper we suggest a billing strategy via sms which is convenient and reduces the manpower. Gsm based energy meter billing using arduino mega 2560 smart energy meter.

This paper presents the design of a simple low cost wireless gsm energy meter and its associated web interface for automating billing and managing the collected.