Application of IoT in Smart Energy Meter

Abstract

Normally, a person standing in front of our house from electricity board, whose duty is to read the energy
meter and handover the bills to the owner of that house every month. This is nothing but meter reading. According to
that reading we have to pay the bills. The main drawback of this system is that person has to go area by area and he
has to read the meter of every house and handover the bills. Many times errors like extra bill amount or notification
from electric board even though the bills are paid are common errors. To overcome this drawback we have come up
with an idea which will eliminate the third party between the consumer and service provider, even the errors will be
overcome. This project works based on internet of things (IoT) by connecting the energy meter with the substation
server so that the recorded data can be sent to the substation for billing purpose using WiFi module and along with
this functionality a new feature is topped up to give the indication to the customer well in advance that whenever the
tariff slab is about to switch over from one slab to another, the customer can take right decision to cut-off unwanted
usage of loads so that to avoid paying more bill amount rendering into paying less billing cost .The proposed system
features are displayed in the meter reading continuously, slab rate changes(like cost changes for different range of
units),Penalty factor (maintain the power factor >=0.9),When the customer did not pay the bill for 2 months cut the
electricity supply, When the temperature of the appliances increased then their threshold value intimate the consumer
by message (save the energy save the plants).