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Design of IoT Based Smart Energy Meter for Home Appliances
M Rupesh1 and N Anbu Selvan2
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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Saveetha School of
Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu, India, Email: *
[email protected] Abstract: Communication technology development is increased day by day. Due to the
development of communication technology, every product is manufactured with smart activities.
From the past decade, most electric devices are executed automatically using the remote control.
Internet of Things (IoT) is used to connect various devices easily with the help of sensors. All the
connected devices are working automatically without any human interventions. The roles of
human beings are only to manage and control the connected devices from a remote location.
Electric meters also using the concept of IoT. This paper describes smart meter devices. This
system's main purpose is to automatically read the number of current consumption units with LED
light, calculate the amount, and display the messages to the user's website and user's smartphone.
This system also issues the user's alert message when the current consumption unit crosses the
limited level.
Key Words: Smart Energy Meter, Electric board, LED, IoT, GSM, Wi-Fi, webpage.
1.Introduction
Now the growth of population is increased day by day. Due to this reason, the residential places and
industries need a large amount of current. Various systems are already introduced to save energy from
residential electric meter devices. In traditional days, the energy meter device fits inside the users'
premises. The consumption rate was taken by human beings and updated into the system. This system
was extremely dependent on operator. The operator wet it to the users¶ locations for collecting the
information. It is a very difficult process. To avoid this condition, the proposed system is used to
measure the current consumption rate automatically. This system is used to collect the current
consumption value and provide the alert message to the user with IoT. The IoT concept permits physical
devices to be measured and managed vaguely across an already available network connection, creating
direct communication between the real world and computer systems. The result of the IoT technique is
getting an accurate result and avail financial benefit. This technology has developed from its starting stage
and currently using this concept. Electricity is important in everyone's life. Without electricity, people
cannot able live in this current world.
This proposed system is used to collect the data from the user's location and use it for the bill
calculating process. The measured value will be stored on the server, and it is used for amount calculation
also. This system measures the current consumption units accurately. This system removes human
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intervention. This proposed system displays the real-time current consumption data on the LCD screen.
Wi-Fi modem can be used to check the consumed units and give threshold unit level via a webpage.
The paper is divided into various parts. Section II describes the same work available in the existing
study. Section III presented the current system architecture. The new proposed system was practically
implemented and tested, and the offered results are shown in section IV; at last, the section discussed the
conclusion of the proposed system.
2.Literature Survey
This work explained the traditional meter reading system. In the existing meter reading system, a human
can come from the electricity board and stand in front of the electric meter to measure the current
consumption units. This is used for calculating electricity bills. The main disadvantage of this traditional
system was that the human went to the users¶ location, measured the units consumed, and handed the bill
to the consumers. Based upon their calculation, the users pay the amount. Sometimes an extra amount
will be added to the electricity bill by human's mistake. To avoid this problem, the authors constructed a
new system using IoT and Arduino concept. In this proposed work Arduino controller was used. Because
it uses less power and fast processing capability than other controllers, this proposed system was
embedded with the existing system. GSM concept was used to send the messages to the user [1].
This paper presents that the electricity people directly went to the users¶ location and note the meter
readings in the existing system. Based on the unit's value, the electricity bill was created and given to the
user. Here the authors proposed a new system to read the meter reading automatically by using an
Arduino controller. This system was providing the privilege to check the energy consumption and the bill
amount using Wi-Fi module. This system will reduce human energy and prevent the machines from repair
[2].
Moreover, provide a new architecture to measure and control the electric meters in residential places
continuously. Finally, they constructed a new system controlled from a remote location. This proposed
architecture can transfer the information to the server and send the SMS using the GSM concept. This
framework has been implemented using an ARM processor controller with some sensor sets [3].
Additionally, it is constructed a new system for measure power usages. This system entirely avoids
person interruption during the power measurement stage. It was constructed by using the new concept
IoT. This technology is used to create the connection in physical objects with various software and sensor
devices. Using this IoT concept, every device can transfer the data between them. This smart meter
automatically reads the electrical consumption from the user's meter device and transfers the data to the
server. Using this data, the bill will be calculated and send to the user, and the current readings will be
displayed on the screen. This proposed system will be used to produce accurate results and proper
amounts [4].
Although, explained the various disadvantages of the existing meter reading system. This proposed
system measures the current consumption rate automatically at a small level. The main objective of this
proposed system was to reduce the power usages in various appliances. This project was implemented by
using Arduino UNO microcontroller and IoT techniques. If any critical conditions are measured, this
system automatically cuts the power supply [5].
Furthermore, it described the monitoring of power consumption in domestic places and calculating
electricity bills with the help of current telecommunication technologies. The main aim of this system
was to decrease the human resource in the electrical department. The electricity bill was calculated
automatically and sent directly to the consumers with IoT. The electricity bill has seen anywhere from the
world. All information is sent by using IoT and stored in a web server [6].
The proposed system explained grid techniques used in electric products. The smart electric meter is
constructed by using advanced metering infrastructures. This new system is extensively spread and
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organized to the newly connected network. Now power-producing systems are also affected by various
attacks. The presented system was operated based on IoT using an Arduino controller [7].
However, constructs and implements a new system used to avoid personal intervention in electric meter
reading and generating an electric bill. This proposed system's major benefit was avoided corruption in
electric power usages and generating an electric bill. This system is constructed using the GSM
approach, Arduino controller combined with the LDR sensor module and relay capability. Here the LDR
sensor integrated with the LED light on the meter box tool and transfer the data to the microcontroller
using the GSM module. This system is also used to send SMS to the concerned users [8].
This work says that smart electric meters are talented in the direction of a boost in energy competence.
But the installation of this proposed system was very difficult to compare with an existing traditional
system [10]. In this smart meter, the LDR sensor was used to measure the LED blinking frequencies.
Normally the number of LED blinks directly proportional to the normal power stored in the traditional
meter device. The sensed data from the LED blinker will be stored on the webserver for the future
purpose [9].
This Author developed a new electric meter using the concept of IoT. In this system LDR sensor is
used to calculate the frequency of the LED blinks. According to the number of blinks, the electric bill will
be calculated. The microcontroller collects the data from the LDR sensor and displays the LCD screen's
result connected with the controller [11].
Even though, it designed an advanced electric meter using Arduino microcontroller and GSM
technology. This smart meter automatically generates the electric bill and automatically sends the bill to
the user via the GSM modem [12].
Finally, the number of smart devices increases day by day. These smart devices are used to making
everything smart work. It allows making the city as a smart city, home as the smart home, etc. The smart
meter consists of various hardware parts and software. Most of the smart meter parts are constructed by
using chips that compute the attributes used to evaluate energy usage. The smart meters mostly calculate
the energy usage, which is based on a chip that calculates the parameters needed to [13].
3.Proposed Method
This proposed smart meter is used to automatically measure energy consumption and automatically
calculate the bill with the help of IoT and GSM techniques [15]. This system is developed by using an
Arduino microcontroller. All the devices are integrated with the microcontroller. The Figure 1 represents
the actual architecture diagram of the proposed system. Here the energy consumption units are measured
from the user's location and calculate the bill [14]. The generated bill sends to the user smartphone
through SMS service.
Figure 1: Architecture diagram of Proposed System
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4.Results and Discussions
This proposed system is used to measure the electric current consumption automatically. The unit count
will be based on the number of blinks of the LED light. The LED light is already available in the smart
meter. The LDR sensor is connected with the LED light. Based upon the LED blinks' frequency, the unit
of electric current will be calculated by the controller. After the calculation process, the controller sends
the bill to the concerned user. Simultaneously, the bill will be updated on the user's website using the Wi-
Fi module also [15]. If the user crosses the limited range, the system will automatically produce the alert
SMS message to the user's smartphone. An Arduino microcontroller develops this system.
Figure 2: Flow Diagram of Proposed System
Figure 3: Output Screens 1
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Figure 4: Output Screens 2
The following Figure 2 shows the flow diagram of the proposed smart meter system. The following
screenshot shows the sample output of the proposed system. Based upon units consumed, the amount will
be calculated. This proposed system also provides the alert message to the user if the consumed electric
power cross the limit. The following Figure 4 shows the alert and awareness message displayed to the
user. The sample output Screens are shown in Figure 3.
5.Conclusion
This proposed smart meter is used to automatically measure energy consumption and automatically
calculate the bill with the help of IoT and GSM techniques. This work deals with the energy consumption
units measured from the user's location and calculates the bill consisting of hardware and software parts.
After the calculation process, the controller sends the bill to the concerned user. Simultaneously, the bill
will be updated on the user's website using the Wi-Fi module. An advanced energy meter accurately
measures electrical energy consumption and provides extra information because compared to a
conventional energy meter; the system is developed by the Aurdino microcontroller. The smart meter's
main advantage is it alerts us when our energy consumption crosses the actual limit by sending a message.
These smart meters can measure the reading and send the information to the customers within a small-time
interval.
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