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Automatic Energy Meter Reading System Using

GSM Technology
Prof. S.R.Kurkute1, Gopal Girase2, Prashant Patil3
Department of Electronics &Telecommunication, SIEM, Nasik, India1, 2, 3

Abstract: Automatic Energy Meter Reading system (AEMR) regularly read the energy meter and calculate total
amount of bill at the set dead line and sends the message to service provider. From energy meter received data i.e. user
name, meter ID, total units with paying amount this message maintained at database server which located at service
provider department. By using this system save the time required for conventional billing system and minimized human
work load. User and service provider both are get correct reading and bill amount. AEMR System can provide message
at hourly, daily and monthly by the request. This technology reduced the man power, reading collection time, theft of
electricity also avoids late bill payment. By apply this system data security improve. And improve customer and service
provider services. Due to this system service provider quickly find out illegal and late bill paying customer by
accessing database. So GSM based AEMR system is more efficient that conventional billing system.

Keywords: Digital Energy meter, GSM module, RTC, Microcontroller, PC, etc.
I. INTRODUCTION
Now a day energy meter reader goes to every premise andfrom the energy meter and performs the necessary control
takes the reading manually then issues the bill. In operations like breaking the circuit through Relay control
manually reading human error possible and not provide unit and the required information to the mobile phone via
reliable meter reading. An energy meter is a device which
the communication module GSM. The MAX-232 which
is used to measures the consumption of energy of any was inbuilt in the ARM7 is used as a serial communication
residence or other industrial establishment. In interface for the GSM modem for transmitting the data
Conventional metering system to measure electricity from the controller to the mobile phone. In the Load bank
consumption the energy provider company hire persons section a 60W incandescent bulb is used as a load for the
who visit each house and record the meter reading purpose of energy consumption of the user.[3]
manually. This is only a sluggish and laborious. In Shraddha Male Pallavi Vethekar, Kavita More, Prof. V. K.
Conventionally metering system people try to manipulateBhusari are “Smart Wireless Electronic Energy Meter
meter reading by adopting various corrupt practices such
Reading Using Embedded Technology” In this paper he
as current reversal or partial earth fault condition, bypass
concluded that The metering IC creates the output in the
meter, magnetic interference etc. If any consumer did not
form of pulses which are counted using the default timer
pay the bill, the electricity worker needs to go to their
of PIC microcontroller unit. These pulses are identified by
houses to disconnect the power supply.[1]The wide the transition of high and low voltage of the automatic
proliferation of wireless communication propose and voltage regulator. A TTL inverter circuit is used to reverse
explore new possibilities for the next generation the produced pulse before applying to the counter. For
Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) whose goal is to help reading the data from the metering IC, microcontroller is
collect the meter measurement automatically and possibly
programmed using software interfacing. When
send commands to the meters. Automation ranges from microcontroller reads the energy usage, this data is stored
Connecting to a meter through an RS-232 interface for and updated in software. In this, meter is measured for 1
transmitting the meter measurements all the way from the
unit of energy consumption and it creates 3200 pulses in
meter to the utility company via GSM network. [2] LED [4]
We are use the digital energy meter in implies a times-S. Arun, Dr. Sidappa Naidu. Are the under the titled
sampled system. An analog to digital converter sampled “Design and Implementation of Automatic Meter Reading
current and voltage transducers output at a high frequency,
System Using GSM, ZIGBEE through GPRS”. This paper
translating real world waveforms to binary words that presents an implementation methodology for a wireless
digital circuitry can understand and manipulate. Digital
automatic meter reading system (WAMRS) incorporating
energy meters maintain their accuracy over a larger the widely used GSM and Zigbee network. In many
current range than the mechanical meter. These new countries GSM and GPRS network is widely known for its
meters are also stable over change in temperature, voltage
vast coverage area, cost effectiveness and also for its
and line frequency. competitive ever growing market. Using GSM as the
medium for WAMRS provides a cost-effective, wireless,
II. LITERATURE STUDY always-connected, two-way data link between utility
O. Homa Kesav, B. Abdul Rahim are the ideas under the company and WAMRS, the WAMRS sends information
titled of “Automated wireless meter reading system for of utility usage, power quality and outage alarm to utility
monitoring and controlling power consumption. The company, tampering detection to the utility servers. In this
ARM7 LPC2148” microcontroller module takes the data paper we suggest a method where we utilize

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telecommunication systems for automated transmission of III. SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION

data to facilitate bill generation at the server end and also
Need of automatic GSM based energy meter system: some
to the customer via SMS, Email. [2]
problems faced by government as well as ordinary peoples
E. Moni Silviya, K. Meena Vinodhini, Salai Thillai for take reading to each and every energy meter of homes
Thilagam. J. is the gives idea under the titled “GSM Based and paying the bill. Some of the problems which need to
Automatic Energy Meter System with Instant Billing”. be overcome are stated in following table.
System which measure the current consumption unit
1 MSCB department rule ismeter reading is
through IR sensor unit. The IR transmitter is placed in the
more than 100 units then amount of per unit
rotating unit of the EB meter. The receiver photo diode is
will be a change.
placed in a certain place which is used to find no of
rotation. By getting the number of rotation we get the 2 Illegal Usage.
current consumption. These system may be applied in 3 Efforts of manual data collection.
Industrial control, medical system and access control.[5] 4 Units count and bill amount error and
maintance cost
Ashna. k, Sudhish N. George are the give ideas under
titled “GSM Based Automatic Energy Meter Reading Some of the important issues are given in the table. This
System with Instant Billing” In this system the two wire can be solve by automatic GSM based energy meter
power supply is connected to the energy metering IC system. Automatic energy reading system can be
through the analog front end of the MCP3905 energy implemented with the help of different types of processor
meter evaluation board which provides average active as we discuss it in our review paper under title Automatic
power information via a pulse output which may be then energy meter reading system using GSM tech. System
used to be processed by a Micro Controller Unit (MCU). from that study we conclude that system can be more
The GSM unit is interfaced to the micro controller via a efficient if it is implemented by using AVR controller.
MAX 232. User GSM modem transmits usage details to Hence in this paper we are going to implement the AEMR
office modem. Every house/premise has a unique number (automatic energy meter reading) using AVR controller.
(consumer number), which is given by the corresponding The block diagram of GSM Based automatic energy meter
authority. [6] reading system Using AVR Microcontroller is shown in
the Fig.1 and fig.2 this system consists of various parts
V. Rajesh Parvathala, T Venkateswara reddy, N V G such GSM module, Optocoupler, RTC, Energy meter,
Prasad gives the ideas under titled “ARM Based Wireless UART cable, computer system.
Energy Meter Reading System along with power on/off
circuit” Basically system has 3 sections, Meter section,
control unit section & mobile unit. Control unit is a
consisting of ARM 7 processor LPC2148, zigbee module,
GSM module and 3 switches (STATUS switch, ON
switch, OFF switch) Meter unit is a consisting of ARM 7
processor LPC2148, zigbee module, energy meter, relay.
The entire operation of the system will do from control
unit by proper selection of the switches. When switch 1 is
selected then the system reads the energy meter reading in
terms of number of units wirelessly through zigbee
modules & then electrical bill is measured for
corresponding number of units consumed by the energy
meter & sends the information regarding the electrical bill Fig.1 block diagram of GSM based energy meter
will be sent to consumer mobile through GSM module (transmitter block)
message consisting of information regarding electrical bill
& the deadline for the payment of the bill. When the
consumer fails to pay the electrical bill in time then the
power supply to energy meter will disconnect wirelessly
by proper selection of switch& then the status of the
energy meter sent to the consumer.[7]
P. Rakesh Malhotra, Dr. R. Seethalakshmi are Automatic
Meter Reading and Theft Control System by Using GSM
In this paper he concluded that GSM technology used to
transmit the meter reading to the customer and
government with the required cost. This process will
happen for 60 days once transmission between customer
and government. Then the energy theft controlled by IR
sensor, magnetic reed switch and some other technique Fig.2 block diagram of GSM based energy meter (receiver
with high security. [8] block)

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Microcontroller continuously monitors and records the FLOWCHART

energy meter reading in its permanent (non-volatile)
memory location. This system also makes use of a GSM
modem for remote monitoring and control of Energy
Meter. The Microcontroller based system continuously
records the readings and the live. Meter reading can be
sent to the Electricity department on request. A dedicated
GSM modem with SIM card is required for each energy
meter.
Microcontroller AVR-AT mega 16:ATmega16 is an 8-
bit high performance microcontroller of Atmel’s Mega
AVR family with low power consumption. The output of
power supply is given to the Vcc pin of the
microcontroller. ATmega16 has an inbuilt 10 bit, 8-
channel ADC system.[9]
Digital meter implementation: The meter is constructed
using off the shelf components such as evaluation board
(MCP3905A), a Microcontroller and LCD (16*2). The
evaluation board is used to calculate the power by sensing
the load that is connected to it. The AVR microcontroller
is used to accumulate the consumed energy by saving the
readings in the microcontroller memory. The LCD will
display the reading.[10]
GSM modem: Quad-band intelligent GSM/GPRS modem
suitable for long duration data transmission. To implement AMR
system a GSM modem is connected to a microcontroller which
would transmits data from a meter to cell phone and also receives
commend from cell phone to energy meter. The modem will send
unit or pulses (power consumption) on a regular interval or on a
request. AT commands set which stands for attention terminal
are used by energy meter to communicate with the GSM Flow chart of Energy Meter Using GSM
Modem.[11]

 System helps to maintain the data properly.

ADVANTAGES
PC (Visual Basic): Visual Basic is a tool that allows you
to develop Windows (Graphic User Interface - GUI)  This system is very accurate, simple and low power
applications. The applications have a familiar appearance
 Which is used for the real time applications.
consumption.
to the user. Visual Basic is event-driven, meaning code
 Provider side is easy to manipulate for bill generation
remains idle until called upon to respond to some event
(button pressing, menu selection, Visual Basic is governed
and other such task.
by an event processor. Nothing happens until an event is

 Electricity departments.
detected. Once an event is detected, the code APPLICATION

 Industrial Energy remote monitoring.

corresponding to that event (event procedure) is executed.

 Household Energy meter monitoring.

Program control is then returned to the event processor.

 Full set of objects - you 'draw' the application  Railway electrical systems.
Some Features of Visual Basic:

 Lots of icons and pictures for your use IV. EXPECTED RESULT
 Response to mouse and keyboard actions Existing Meter Reading Systems:

 Clipboard and printer access

Meter Reading and Billing are among the most time
consuming functions performed by municipalities and
 Sequential and random access file support energy distribution companies. It should be clear that such

 Useful debugger and error-handling facilities

methods are very time consuming and does not satisfy the
consumer and service provider, in addition to the large
 Powerful database access tools
number of errors incorporated in the reading process.
Automatic meter reading system:
 Proteus ISIS 7.0
Software requirement So AMER system necessary because speed, accuracy, and
cost effectiveness are the strongest features in this system.
 Protel 99se The results from the system is the system should have a

 PICkit 2 v2.61.
display which shows the following information on screen
when dead line is come which set in programming

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Such types of message automatically send to service Professor in department of Electronics and
provider when dead line comes. Telecommunication Engineering of sandip foundation’s
SIEM, Nasik.
V. CONCLUSION
Mr. Gopal Girase –PursuingBE in Electronics and Tele
In the present work wireless meter reading system is
communication engineering from department of
designed to continuously monitor the meter reading and It
Electronics and Communication Engineering of sandip
avoids the human intervention, provides efficient meter
foundation’s SIEM, Nasik.
reading, avoid the billing error and reduce the maintenance
cost. It displays the corresponding information on LCD for Mr. Patil Prashant–Pursuing BE in Electronics and Tele
user notification. and mainly it maintain the database of communication engineering from department of
meter reading which received by the consumer energy Electronics and Communication Engineering of sandip
meter. foundation’s SIEM, Nasik.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to express profound gratitude to Dr. R. G.
Tated (Principal, SIEM Nasik) for his valuable support,
encouragement, supervision and useful suggestions
throughout this work. Also to Prof. D.P. Patil (HOD
department of E&TC, SIEM Nasik), Prof. Y.R. Risodkar
and Prof. M. K. Sangole of department of Electronics
&Telecommunication for moral support and continuous
guidance enabled us to complete this work successfully

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BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Swapnil R. Kurkute -Received BE in Electronics

and Communication Engineering and ME in
Communication from North Maharashtra University,
Jalgaon-Maharashtra. Presently working as a Assistant

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