Iot-Based Smart Energy Meter Reading and Billing System

Abstract

There has been rapid progress towards the development of smart cities in the recent past. A smart city is an urban area that uses advanced technology for efficient monitoring and managing of resources- with an aim of improving the quality of life of its residents, and also optimizing the cost and energy requirements. Focusing on energy related monitoring, the basic component which serves as the foundation for all data collection, analysis and automation is a smart energy meter. This paper takes a conventional energy meter and with few modifications like Arduino and GSM module added to it convert it into a smart energy meter. This smart energy meter is further enhanced with the use of Internet-of-Things (IoT). In order to transmit data over a GSM mobile network, such as consumed energy in kWh, generated bills, etc., the smart energy meter system will integrate an embedded controller (Arduino) with a GSM modem. The data collected from the user end can be provided to the Energy providers or Power companies, enabling them to monitor and control the services for their customers without the need for human labour can be achieved using IoT. Also integrating the smart meter with IOT, the user can access the data from anywhere in the world using an Id and Password provided to them. Our project will be helpful for major energy corporations to cut down extra labour cost and minimize the error and losses while also being User friendly.