Proceedings of 21 st IRF International Conference, 3 rd April, 2016, Bengaluru, India, ISBN: 978-93-85973-96-3 24 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF E-SAVING METER TO PREVENT THE WASTAGE OF ELECTRICITY 1 RAKESH TIGADI, 2 NIKITA P, 3 SAGAR UMLOTI, 4 SHIVARAJ DODDAMALLAPPANAVAR, 5 VIVEK HOSAMANI, 6 VISNUPANTH HUDDEDAR, 7 VIVEKANANDAYYA HIREMATH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Department of Instrumentation Technology, B V Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, India E-mail: 1 rakesh.tigadi@gmail.com, 2 bvbnikita@gmail.com, 3 sagar.g.umloti@gmail.com , 4 shivrajd2013@gmail.com, 5 vivek.h9@gmail.com, 7 vivekhiremath09@gmail.com Abstract— Most people extensively use electricity meter. It is a simple device that calculates the amount of electricity used. Electricity is a basic need to run all the machines. Nowadays usage of electricity has been increased drastically along with that there is excessive consumption of electricity. Most of the people forget to switch off buttons, which leads them to pay heavy electricity bills. The main objective of this work is to overcome the power wastage. There are different stages of usage of electricity and the charges applied for usage of electricity by HESCOM/BESCOM will be doubled for every next stage. This paper proposes with innovative Idea called E-Saving Meter by implementing four colour codes for four different stages, just below the WALL-CLOCK so that the user will come to know or he gets alert whenever he sees the wall clock about exceeding subsidy electricity usage stage and get alerted about charging double amount for each unit of electricity used, so customer will automatically save electricity (Idea came basically from by studying the mentality of users. for example when the Internet data pack of the customer is get over and he use Internet only whenever it necessary because he is alerted about charging more and he know the ISP will charge more money) . E-Saving meter is a product which will alert and boost the user to save the electricity. It is an easy way of saving electricity by one button touch using remote, similar to battery saving application in smart phones. Keywords— E Saving Meter, WALL LOCK. I. INTRODUCTION Electric meter is the device which helps in knowing the amount of power consumed in one month in that particular building. The existing product related to electricity meter gives the information of units consumed by the user in one month. But all these existing devices lack in customer ease of use because these meters cannot be analysed by common people and also the user will get bill at the end of month after using electricity without any caution of exceeding subsidy units of electricity usage. Most of the times, people often forget to switch off the Television, Refrigerator, Fan button and other electrical devices. This will result in the excess usage of electricity. So, there has to be some solution which will eradicate such issues. E-saving meter is a product that can indicate the usage of electricity and gives update of it and boost the customer to resist the excess usage of electricity and also control the switches, based on the amount of usage of electricity. E-Saving meter is designed in such way that it displays particular color to show the customer in which stage user is present just below the WALL CLOCK, so that the user will come to know or get alerted whenever he sees that clock and user will automatically get to know about exceeding subsidy electricity usage stage and get alerted about charging double amount for each unit of electricity used, based on this user can switch off the lights, Television, multiple AC’s and so on which consumes more electricity. By pressing single button in E-saving meter remote, user can access different modes and user is also provided facility of selecting switches which have to be shut down in that particular saving mode. In this way wastage of electricity can be saved in each house, malls, general stores, institutes, offices which collectively helps in saving large amount of electricity. Consider an example which helps in understanding how E-saving meter boosts the customer to save electricity in Malls and retail stores. It is observed that most of the malls and retail stores use the electricity heavily by operating all the appliances like Television, AC and speakers even when there are less number of customers in the mall. If E-saving meter is implemented within WALL-CLOCK near manager counter then E-Saving meter alerts manager whenever he sees the wall clock, about exceeding subsidy electricity usage stage as per the HESCOM/BESCOM. So, E-Saving meter boost him to save electricity when there are less number of customers by just selecting the power saving mode which will enable minimum lighting and air conditioning in the area, which will save the wastage of electrical power and also electricity bill of the mall owner. E-Saving meter color codes of different stages and respective charges for those stages by BESCOM/HESCOM are as follows: Table 1. Color code indicating different stages