IJSRSET196269 | Received : 12 March 2019 | Accepted : 24March 2019 | March-April -2019 [ 6 (2) : 287-292 ]
© 2019 IJSRSET | Volume 6 | Issue 2 | Print ISSN: 2395-1990 | Online ISSN : 2394-4099
Themed Section : Engineering and Technology
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET196269
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Smart Electricity Billing Using Node-MCU
D. V. N.Ananth
1
, G. Joga Rao
2
Ch. Satish
3
, J. Shyam
4
, K.Santosh
5
, U.V.V.S.S.V.Prasad
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, K. Ramya
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1
Assistant Professor, EEE Department, Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
2
Associate Professor, EEE Department, Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
3-7
B.Tech, EEE Department, Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
ABSTRACT
There are many problems in metering and billing processes like the going of meter reader to each customer
meter to manually take the meter reading, the probability of the non-existence of the customers at their homes
during that time, the lack of integrity and credibility of some of the meter readers, the safety and the outback
areas represent a huge drawback cannot be neglected. In other hand, the in service classical energy meter type
(induction type) suffers from well-known measuring errors. The above problems result in two significant points,
waste of much money due to the large number of employees (meter readers) and the weakness in electricity
management which results in lack in electric power. This project provides an excellent solution to the problems
mentioned above where the system has been designed based on the use of energy smart meter to read electrical
energy consumed to get an accurate reading. Then the energy reading is sent to the control centre in the
electricity department based on GSM/SMS technology. The system in the electricity department receives
readings and makes processing operations on them and extracts the bills that must be paid by the customer. The
system also sends a message to the own customer mobile phone which contains the current bill, due bill, and
total bill every two months have to be paid. In addition the system has the ability to print out a hard copy of
the customer bill. Finally the proposed system has the ability of automatic power outage if the customer
refrains or delays for certain time in paying the bills by means of an SMS.
Keywords: Energy Meter, Node-MCU, Current Sensor, Voltage Regulator
I. INTRODUCTION
The world is changing towards automatic wireless
technologies, which prefer not only reducing human
efforts but is helping in making systems automatic
and efficient. A system is said to be intelligent when
it can decide what to do without any instruction and
can work automatically. An Electric or Energy meter
measures the total electrical energy in units used by
the appliances which consume electrical energy from
the main power supply. Electromechanical and
Electronic meter are two types of meter Available in
the market to measure the unit consumption.
Electromechanical meters are commonly used in
village areas, where the uses of modern technology
are not as high as it is in cities. Electromechanical
meters have become out of date nowadays.
Electronic meters replace electromechanical meters.
This meter consists of LCD/LED to display the
reading. Calibration Led is used on the meter which
shows the units consumed. Manpower is required to
read the meter and note down the reading. The
reading on the meter is increasing which is used to
generate the electricity bill. An IOT Based Smart
Electricity Meter and billing System does the same