GMM BASED PREPARED ENERGY METER
Y.R. Ingle, R.R.Bhosale, S.M. Shaikh
INTRODUCTION
The prepaid electricity meter concept is a driving energy to the enhancement of electricity meter. In the past year's many efforts had been made to the energy meter with improved billing method but till now the invented energy meters are not up to the mark. The number of energy consumers is increasing at an alarming rate. It has become typical to provide such a huge amount of energy. Maintenance of the power is an important task as the human operator goes to consumer’s house and produces the bill as per the meter reading. The energy meter billing process is time-consuming if the user is not in the house while taking readings on energy consumption. It requires a lot of time and more labor to analyze energy consumption and generating the bill. If the consumer is unable to pay the bill then the foreman has to approach to the consumer’s house. This consumes time and difficult to handle. The manual operator cannot find the Un-authorized connections or malpractices carried out by the consumer to reduce or stop the meter reading/power supply [5]. The energy meters which were invented in the past required smartcard for its proper functionality. The demerit of that method is that it needs internet and the computer interface. IN this project, we propose a method which uses the GSM Network which eliminates the need for internet. “A Prepaid Energy Meter” system consists of Energy Meter and the GSM network. GSM modem utilizes the GSM network to deliver equivalent unit for the recharged amount to the Arduino and alerts consumer about the low balance. In the energy provider side, this system is used to update the consumer account and the database. Prepaid electrical meter facilitates the user to use the energy if the balance is more than the threshold value. The system first gets recharged by a certain amount and allows to use only limited units of energy as per recharge and then cut off the supply when the balance goes below the specified particular value. The Prepaid electricity meter is widely used to provide a neoteric more modified electrically billing system where the users revitalize when they intend to use the facility. It also consists of GSM module that allow the operator to revitalize the meter with the help of an SMS message. This puts forward an innovative electricity billing and eliminates the need for manual electricity mete