Cost Effective Energy Monitoring System
Abstract
Remote energy meter monitoring is an advanced energy meter formulated by our own which will overcome the problems faced in conventional metering system such as human interference which leads to incorrect billing. In this energy meter advanced technologies such as ARM microcontroller, Raspberry Pi, ADC, Seven segment display (SSD), Cloud (Thing Speak) have been used. This is the new device which is using CY8C4247AZI-M485 ARM Microcontroller and will display voltage, current, and power on SSD and send data on IoT cloud Platform through Raspberry Pi. It can be implemented for residential as well as for industrial purpose. The developed system replaces traditional meter reading methods and enables remote access of existing energy meter by the energy provider. Also it can monitor the meter readings regularly without the person visiting each house. The system collects and manages energy consumption data and provides billing information for the user. A user can easily monitor, manage, and control energy consumption and achieve energy cost saving using the proposed scheme.
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Introduction
Now a days traditional manual meter reading was not suitable for longer operating purposes as it spends human power. It brings additional problems in calculation of readings and manual billing. In the near future total energy demand is expected to become double the current demand. In view of this situation adopting proper energy management steps and accuracy in billing has become very important.The purpose of project is to develop the ‗Remote energy meter monitoring‘ for single phase. ARM processor is one of the devices which handle entire sub devices connected across it [14]. The energy management technique will eliminate waste, measure and monitor current level of energy use and improve the existing operating procedures in the industry as well as in homes.
Here a new method of post-paid electronic energy metering is introduced in this paper which will automatically sense the used energy, records these reading continuously, then sends it to the IoT cloud through the Raspberry Pi and we can store, retrieve and processed data using Thing speak Cloud Platform which is one of the IoT Cloud Platform [13]. This meter will monitor the usage of electricity as well as it will keep track of real time consumption. This metering system will display voltage, current, power on seven segment display which will allow user to see how much energy is consuming for a particular power tools and this data is send to consumer by using Raspberry Pi and IoT cloud technology. This system will help in reducing the man power and also it will reduce unnecessary hassles over incorrect billing at industries as well as at homes. [11]
Conclusion
The 21 st century has brought Great Discoveries and advancement in the field of technology. These advancement also brought many challenges and required approaches to handle these challenges. Smart metering system is one of such approaches. In our project we explained all concept of smart metering.
The developed system provides application which will be connected and provide user with useful information. All the information or data processed by user as well as admin will be automatically saved and update in the system. We are also providing application for our system which will be connected to our system and provide user with useful information. We will do testing for the system and make sure that prototype is functional.