ABSTRACT

The aim of the project is to monitor energy

meter reading, the cost of the electricity usage,

intimate power cut before shutdown and also to

indicate current theft by sending SMS to users

by using GSM modem and Zigbee system.

The energy meter monitoring and taking of the readings need man power.

No communication between Electricity board and users

Chances of power theft.

Existing System:

Automatically calculates the energy consumed without using man power.

It intimates shutdown time in advance.

Avoids power theft by other users.

provides communication between user and EB

Proposed System

In this system the PIC microcontroller is used for efficient energy meter monitoring system.

This system is connected to energy meter with load.

The IR receiver is used to count the reading of the energy meter.

The value of the IR receiver will be given to the microcontroller.

This value is transmitted to the EB section through ZIGBEE.

System Description:

The EB section uses GSM modem to send details of energy consumed with charge to be paid.

If not paid before due date, EB section sends DISCONNECT command to home section via zigbee. Thus relay gets disconnected.

The power shut down details are transmitted to the home from the EB section using the ZIGBEE.

PIC16F877A IR sensor Energy meter GSM Modem MAX232 LCD. PC Mobile

Hardware Requirements:

KEIL Compiler Flash Magic

Software Requirements:

The developed system reduces interaction between the user and EB personnel.

The system can be modified by using latest SPI metering ICs which will provide more parameters.

Power factor improvement options can be added in future.

CONCLUSION

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P.K. Lee and L.L. Lai, Fieee, “A practical approach to wireless GPRS on-line power quality monitoring system”, Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007

Li Kaicheng, Liu Jianfeng, Yue Congyuan, Zhang Ming. “Remote power management and meter-reading system based on ARM microprocessor”, Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Digest,2008. CPEM 2008. Conference on Digital Object identifier.

M.P Praveen, “KSEB to introduce SMS-based fault maintenance system”, The Hindu News on 26/06/2011, http://www.hindu.com.

H.G.Rodney Tan, C.H. Lee,V.H.Mok, “Automatic power meter reading system using GSM network”, The 8 Conference (IPEC 2007).International Power Engineering

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