Design and Implementation of Smart Energy Meter using LoRa-WAN and IoT Applications

Abstract

In the day to day life in the present world where we are using vast technology, power is the most important term to deal for any Digital system to work, so it is as important to calculate the power we are consuming for our needs as anything over may drain one, so to know the power consumed from anywhere here we are dealing with smart energy meter using LoRa-WAN and IoT Applications, LoRa stands for Long Range, the name itself states that it deals with long range communication with the low power consumption working on batteries for years, In the IoT applications the range of the communication is the most important factor, as in IoT most of the Wi-Fi based systems needs to have many access points to cover the large area hence there is increment in the expenses for the system to integrate, by adding the unit of LoRa to the described design we can enhance the system to long range to several locations within that prescribed range as a LoRa can handle many nodes, the main theme of the LoRa is to promote the Bi-directional communication, all the data collected is stored in the Gateway and sent to the cloud server where you can access the data from anywhere through the mobile phone or PC and device, by installing the demanding version of software on your Gadget. AS we can see that in our real time we are using 4G network where transmitted bits or more, in the concept of LoRa the transmitted bits or less, by which we can overcome the disadvantage of the 4G/GSM networks, as of now as there is a huge loss to the telecommunication industries due to this they are switching to the LoRa.

Vampire: A smart energy meter for synchronous monitoring in a distributed computer system

“…One of the first options for very long distances is to use GSM (global system for mobile communication) [88][89][90][91]; but to obtain high capacity in data communication you can also use other wireless networks such as ZigBee [15,92,93], wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) [15,52,83] or IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks (6LoWPAN) [94][95][96]. One option to cover long distances is to use LPWAN (low-power wide-area network) technologies [97][98][99][100] such as SigFox [101,102], Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) [103][104][105] and Long Range (LoRa), LoRa standing out among these for being an open technology, not requiring a contract with the owner company or acquiring a SIM card [16,46,66,67,90,44,66,66,[106][107][108][109].…”

A Secure and Resilient Smart Energy Meter

“…Furthermore, the low power consumption of LoRaWAN is advantageous, particularly in battery-powered SEMs [46,47]. This function significantly increases the lifespan of SEM batteries, lowers maintenance costs and improves the overall smart-grid efficiency.…”

Advanced and Complex Energy Systems Monitoring and Control: A Review on Available Technologies and Their Application Criteria

“…Different technologies can be implemented and executed to measure energy parameters. Smart metering technologies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] are suitable for power quality check, measurements of active and reactive power, optimization of grid control, and power consumption monitoring. Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems [9,10] are able to integrate measurement systems by controlling parameters in real time.…”