AUTOMATIC ENERGY METER READING USING GSM MODULE Pooja J. Kamble 1, Ashwini M. Koli2, Aruna R. Mohite3 Asst. Prof. Supriya S. Patil4 123

Student, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, DMGOI, India

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Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, DMGOI, India

ABSTRACT The proposed work, To getting automatic energy meter reading using GSM module. A system which measure current consumption unit through LDR sensor. The LDR sensor placed on a energy meter which sense LED blinking pulse. These pulses are counted in microcontroller AT89S52.Then the unit will display on LCD which is interface with controller. At that time microcontroller send this reading through serial drive MAX232 via. GSM module.GSM module sends this message to electricity board.

Keywords: Communication, GSM modem, Energy Meter, LCD. I. INTRODUCTION Now a days the traditional manual Meter Reading was not suitable for longer operating purposes as it spends much human and material resource. It brings additional problems in calculation of readings and billing manually. The number of Electricity consumers is increasing in great extent. It became a hard task in handling and maintaining the power as per the growing requirements. Presently maintenance of the power is also an important task as the human operator goes to the consumer’s house and produces the bill as per the meter reading. If the consumer is not available, the billing process will be pending and human operator again needs to revisit. Going to each and every consumer’s house and generating the bill is a laborious task and requires lot of time. It becomes very difficult especially in rainy season. If any consumer did not pay the bill, the operator needs to go to their houses to disconnect the power supply. These processes are time consuming and difficult to handle. The proposed work is implemented for the purpose of getting a real power consumption and accurate reading. Current system Consumes more time and labour. Also it is slow, costly, and lack in flexibility as well as reliability.Today accuracy in electricity billing is highly recommended. An electricity meter or energy meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a residence, business, or an electrically powered device. The smart energy meter is less time consuming and cost effective. It provides real time monitoring of electricity uses. The purpose of this project to get automatic electricity reading system. Even though accurate and fast reading are obtained by using GSM system. The design and implementation of a digital GSM based Smart Energy Meter based on microcontroller. Sending details to consumer or utility company through SMS using GSM network by the microcontroller is a distinct feature of this project.

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II. LITERATURE REVIEW 1. The GAPMR system consists of GSM digital power meter installed in every consumer unit and an electricity e-billing system at the energy provide side. The GSM digital power meter is a single phase power meter with embedded GSM module which utilizes the GSM network to send its power usage reading using short messaging system (SMS) back to the energy provider wirelessly. [1] 2. A power load management system based ARM-J microcontroller and GPRS system consist of electronic KWH meter, intelligent management terminal (IMT) management centre. The intelligent terminal is used to acquire information from KWH meter, control the energy consuming device and communicate with management centre via. GPRS network. [2] 3. Where maximum demand of energy of consumer will be indicated in meter used by the consumer. After exceeding the maximum demand, the meter and hence the connection will automatically be disconnected by an embedded system inserted in the meter itself. Also helps to eliminate the drawbacks of billing management system, Such as to take reading from the meter, to create bill to print the bill and to send the bill to proper address to collect the amount for bill. [3] 4. The result of an investigation which shows that the development of the GSM network as low cost. Global carrier of digital telecommunication signals provides exciting opportunities for novel application such as the handling of power system metering and load management telemetry. As the use of GSM for telephones becomes more widespread it is inevitable that cost will be driven lower and it is also inevitable that this medium for the transfer of telemetry data. [4]

III. PROPOSED WORK In the current system one person from MSEB are collect readings from wards and make their bills Then Bills are printed and distributed door to door. This system is discrete, inaccurate, costly, slow, lack flexibility and reliability. To overcome these drawbacks we have proposed the following objective: 1. To development and design the automatic energy meter reading using GSM module. 2. To interfacing the LDR to the Microcontroller AT89S52 which is used to count the blinking pulses of LED from energy meter, this will help in counting the units consumed by the appliances. 3. To interfacing GSM module hardware which will send consumed units to MSEB. This will provide an ease for the MSEB as well as consumer to get the idea of units cost.

IV. METHODOLOGY

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Figure 1: Block Diagram WORKING The figure 1 shows the proposed block diagram for an Automatic energy meter reading using GSM system. Here microcontroller is main part which control and monitor whole system. And also it interfaced with various devices like LCD, LDR, and GSM module. Firstly LDR is interfaced to controller. Here the LDR is used as a sensor it senses the blinking rate of LED which is present on energy meter. It is used as an indicator, when power is consumed then LED blinks. When LED blinks at 3200 times then 1 unit power is consumed by the devices. It sends the signal to the LDR. And then LDR sends the pulses to the micro controller. Also LCD is interfaced with controller. LCD is the display unit, the total units are counted by the micro controller and then display on the LCD. In last GSM module is interfaced to controller through RS232. Here micro controller sends the data to the RS232. RS232 is used as a level convertor and it is used for the serial communication. It sends e signal to the GSM module. GSM module is used for the mobile connectivity. Then the GSM module sends the data information to the subscriber. The figure 2 shows the working flow of proposed work.

Figure 2: Flow diagram

V. CONCLUSION The project model reduces the manual manipulation work .Use of GSM in our system provides the numerous advantages of wireless network systems. This system is more beneficial for customer side and the government side. The energy meter ensures that the accurate and reliable measurement of power consumed. Cost wise low when compared to other energy meter without automatic meter reading.

VI. FUTURE SCOPE 1. The automatic reading sends to the distributer to

consumer via GSM.

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2. Automatic reading sends through email to user. 3. Interfacing PC with GSM in MECB

VII. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost we want to thank our Guide Asst. Prof. S.S.Patil. For constant encouragement and noble guidance. With great pleasure and gratefulness, we extend our deep sense of gratitude to Prof. J. K. Ravan, HOD, Electronics and Telecommunication Engg. Dept. for giving us an opportunity to accomplish our paper and to increase our knowledge. Lastly we wish each and every person involved in making our dissertation successful. Thank You.

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