Paper-21 | Reg. No.:20140321|DOI:V2I4P21
AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ENERGY METER DATA AND BILLING CYCLE
Nirav Kanade, Shreyas Chavan, Aditya Diwan, Tejas Kolhe, and Paritosh Rai,Department of Electrical Engineering,Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering, Mumbai University
A country like India where corruption lies everywhere we cannot imagine what size of losses are made by our country every day in all the areas. One of the major areas is stealing electricity in our nation. As all of us know very well that the production of electricity in our nation is much below then its demand or requirement. Over this the production cost of electricity is also very high. If the scenario in the county is above, then it is the responsibility of all citizens to use electricity efficiently, avoid misuse of it and very importantly pay for electricity honestly. On the other side it is the responsibility of Government to cut down the expenses wherever possible to bring down the cost of electricity. Govt. spends a big amount for the meter reading and bill printing which ultimately adds to the electricity cost. This paper presents the development of an Energy Meter which is having capabilities like remote monitoring and controlling of energy meter. Automatic Meter Reading system (AMR) continuously monitors the energy meter and sends data on request of service provider through SMS. It saves huge human labour. The data received from an energy meter has been stored in database server which was located at electricity Board station through SMS gate way for further processing by energy provider. Energy provider sends electricity bill either by e-mail, SMS or by post.