Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Technoscience Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non- commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited First International Conference on Computer Engineering International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X (www.ijsrst.com) Volume 5 Issue 8, November-December-2020 80 IOT Based Smart Electric Meter Shikha Kushwaha 1 , Sahil Dhankhar 1 , Shailendra Singh 1 , Vishal Kisan Borate 2 1 Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India 2 Assistant Professor Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India ABSTRACT Electricity plays a cardinal role in day to day life. The electrical energy consumption in India is the third biggest after China and USA with 5.5% global share in 2016. Due to manual work, our existing electricity billing system has major drawbacks. This system gives the information on meter reading, power cut and the alert systems for producing an alarm when energy consumption exceeds beyond the specified limit using IoT.This idea is being implemented to reduce the human dependency to collect the monthly reading and minimize the technical problems regarding billing process. From the electricity board section, the information regarding the bill amount, payment and the pre-planned power shut down details are communicated to the consumer. If the customer does not pay the bill in time, the user is informed through a message. In the already existing smart energy meter, it shows the energy consumed by the appliances from the date of installation of the energy meter and its corresponding rupees. In this proposed energy meter, the meter gives the energy consumed on daily basis, its corresponding rupees, billing details and payment using IoT. This system not only reduces the power cut issues and the labor cost for noticing the residential energy consumption in regular intervals but also increases the energy conservation with the help of alarm systems and the energy meter accuracy by reducing the billing error and the cost of maintenance. Keywords—Arduino, GSM, IoT, energy consumption, human dependency, shut down, alert message, payment details, daily basis, alarm systems. 1. INTRODUCTION Monitoring and keeping tracking of electricity consumption for verification is a tedious task today since manual meter reading and recording is in vogue. It is important to know from the customer view point that if one is charged fairly and according to the need. [2] Automation of the system will allow users to monitor energy meter readings over the internet in the real- time. [2]