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International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

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National Conference on Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (NCREEE’16)

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On 17th & 18th March 2016

Automatic Energy Consumption and Cost

Monitoring System with GSM
Sreekala V.M1, C.R Gayathri2, Ashna Sunny3, Steve.P.Paul4
UG Student, Dept. of EEE, HKCET, Pampakuda, Ernakulum, Kerala, India1
UG Student, Dept. of EEE, HKCET, Pampakuda, Ernakulum, Kerala, India2
UG Student, Dept. of EEE, HKCET, Pampakuda, Ernakulum, Kerala, India3
UG Student, Dept. of EEE, HKCET, Pampakuda, Ernakulum, Kerala, India4

ABSTRACT: The energy billing system used nowadays are labour and time consuming. Errors are inevitable at every
stage of billing. Some are human errors while noting down the meter readings.In this paper, an automatic energy and
cost monitoring system has been proposed. This unit displays the value of supply voltage, current, units and cost of
consumption. The main component of the system is an arduino controller. If we use this system it will be beneficial for
the consumer to manage the power.The main aim of this is to know, how much unit is obtained and the total amount of
rupees has to be paid. This will help both the inspector and the owner of the place where the meter is placed, we can
simply view the unit and the total money that we have to pay and also send to our cell phone as well as the EB contact
number using GSM technology.

KEYWORDS: prepaid meter,post paid meter,gsm,arduino,rtc.

I.INTRODUCTION

From the time of invention, till day, energy meters have undergone several advancements, from electromechanical
meters to more sophisticated and accurate digital and electronic meters.Electric energy meters, the direct billing
interface between utilities and consumers plays significant role in power system. Hence, the development of these
meters is very important. The conventional electromechanical meters are being replaced by new electronic meters to
improve accuracy in meter reading. Still, the Indian power sector faces a serious problem of lean revenue collection for
the actual electric energy supplied owing to energy thefts and network losses. One of the prime reasons is the
traditional billing system which is inaccurate many times, slow, costly, and lack in flexibility as well as reliability.
Therefore, attempts are being made to automate the billing systems. Even though more accurate and faster meter
readings have been introduced, bill payment is still based on a traditional procedure. They require an individual/agent
to personally come down to customer place and note the meter readings and report the amount one has to pay to the
household/office.

In this paper, an automatic energy and cost monitoring system has been proposed. This is actually an individual unit
that could be installed by the consumer or which could be adopted by the electricity board for meter reading. The main
feature of this system is that it aims at economical as well as better utilisation of available energy by the consumer.The
system design is done using one of the most advanced controller Aurduino, which replaces the PIC and
microcontrollers. The implementation of this paper will help in better energy management, conservation of energy and
also eliminates the problems on unnecessary hassles over incorrect billing. The automated billing system will keep
track of the real time consumption and will leave little scope for disagreement.

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On 17th & 18th March 2016

II.SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Fig.1 Block diagram of proposed system

The proposed system consists of input measurement circuit,control system using ARDUINO , RTC, LCD display
module and GSM(global system for mobile communication). Input measurement circuit consists of current transformer,
potential transformer and a pulse generator circuit .This unit measures the value of supply voltage ,current drawn by the
load .The pulse generator circuit generates the pulses as per energy consumption .The major part of the proposed
system is an arduino controller. The measured voltage and current are fed to the controller.The controller converts the
outputs of current transformer and potential transformer in to actual values by multiplying with transformation ratios of
transformers and ADC resolution factor.The controller controls the overall functions of the system. The amount of
energy consumption and cost of consumption are calculated in the control section by using tariff rates. The arduino
board is interfaced with RTC DS1307 , GSM and LCD module.RTC means that real time clock , provides seconds,
minutes, hours, day, date, month and year information.LCD module displays the voltage , current, consumed units,cost
of consumption and calendar informations.GSM module is used for the communication between the server and client.In
this system the amount and cost of energy consumption can be automatically send to our cell phone as well as the
electricity board contact number using GSM technology at the end of two months. We can also receive the same
whenever a message is sent from our cell phone to the GSM module. The main highlight in using GSM technology is
that this eliminates the requirement of an individual/agent to personally come down to customer place and note the
meter readings and report the amount one has to pay to the household/office. Since the consumer receives message on
the cost of consumption, it creates an awareness on the daily electricity usage in the household and industry.

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III.SYSTEM DESIGN

Fig.2 Simulation model of proposed system

DESCRIPTION

The main component of the system is an arduino controller. The Arduino platform consists of a microcontroller board
and the associated IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Microcontrollers are small computers that are much
easier to interface with the physical world than regular computers. Microcontrollers have been around for a long time
finding diverse applications. The arduino IDE comes with many libraries and makes it easy to write arduino programs
or sketches, as they are known in the world of arduino. Arduino is not one-size-fits-all and a range of arduino boards is
available for different applications. Here the arduino uno series is used. The parts of arduino uno board are power
connector, TX and RX LEDs, USB Port, reset Button, digital Input/Output, Power LED ,On-board LED
microcontroller and analog Input. Power connector is used to power the Arduino when it is not plugged into a USB port
for power. The power connector can accept voltages from 7 to 12 volts, so the standard 9-volt battery is good enough
for powering the board and TX and RX LEDs indicates the communication between computer and arduino. The USB
port connects your arduino to a computer and it is used for powering the arduino as well as uploading sketches to it and
the reset button is used to reset the on-board microcontroller. Digital input/output pins are the primary way to interface
the arduino board with external components and systems.These pins are used to read as well as write digital data using
digitalRead() and digitalWrite() functions. The power LED indicates that the arduino is getting power or not.

The outputs of current transformer and potential transformer are fed to the ADC(analog to digital converter) pins of
arduino .Arduino converts the outputs of PT and CT into actual voltage and current by multiplying it with ADC
resolution factor and transformation ratios of transformers.

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Here we are using a 16x2 LCD DISPLAY to display the supply voltage, current drawn by the load system, date ,hour,
minute, seconds ,year,energy consumption and cost of consumption.The RTC module is used to give an information
about calendar details.The end of the month date is automatically adjusted for months with fewer than 31
days,including corrections for leap year.The clock operates in either the 24-hour or 12-hour format with AM/PM
indicator.The DS1307 has a built-in power sense circuit that detects power failures and automatically switches to the
back up supply.Time keeping operation continues while the part operates from the back up supply.Another most
important part of system is GSM.GSM modem is a data oriented GSM transceiver that uses a network provider to
connect and transfer data.It is reliable ,easy to use and have wide coverage area.The wireless modem sends and
receives data through radio waves.Like a GSM mobile phone ,a GSM modem requires a SIM card from a wireless
carrier in order to operate.AECCMS uses SIM 900.GSM operates at 4 different frequencies, the modem is known as
quad band modem.

IV.SIMULATION RESULTS

The proposed system circuitry has been set up in the proteus and the program for the system is written on the Arduino
IDE (Integrated Development Environment).After the compilation of the program a hex file is generated. This hex file
is virtually burned on the arduino IC. After the simulation ,LCD unit displays the date ,time,supply voltage ,current
drawn by the load system, energy consumption and cost of consumption and the gsm module automatically sent the
amount and cost of energy consumption to our cell phone as well as the electricity board contact number with in a finite
time interval.

V.HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION

Fig.3 Circuit prototype of proposed system

VI .FUTURE SCOPE

The proposed system can be further modified by attaching bank account so that the electricity bill will be automatically
deducted from the account in 2 months interval. Also, message will be send to the consumer after the transaction is
done.Since,the proposed system is experimentally set up on short term basis,the present tariff rate is used for cost

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On 17th & 18th March 2016

estimation.So,while considering the system for long term usage, we could connect it to the the internet for regular
updates of tariff rates.

VII .CONCLUSION

The automatic energy and cost monitoring system is designed and experimented for better and economical utilization
of generated power. The proposed system displays the value of supply voltage, current, units and cost of consumption.
Also, by the usage of GSM, the electricity bill will be automatically send to the consumer’s cell phone as well as to the
electricity board contact number in an interval of 2 months. The paper also aims in creating an awareness among
consumer on energy conservation. It also rectifies main drawbacks of our present metering system.

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