Abstract:
It is a difficult job for the electricity board officials to manually take meter readings and calculate bill as it is time consuming and requires workers. Billing consumers for energy consumption is not uniform. It is a tedious job for the electricity board official to manually go and take meter readings of big industrialists and reset their maximum demand after recording it. Even the latest energy meter is not tamper proof. Hence considering all these factors it is possible to design an energy meter that is tamper proof, supports automatic metering and billing system. Also at the same time helps in finding the energy theft in transmission lines. Considering all these features that can be done by a single energy meter it has called “RESOURCEFUL ENERGY METER”.
The Resourceful energy meter will be an electronic device that will record consumption of electric energy and communicate the data collected to the electricity supplier for monitoring and billing. It typically records energy hourly or more frequently. The gathered statistics are then transmit to the supplier and corresponding billing calculation has done. Communications from the meter to the network may be wireless, or via fixed wired connections such as power line carrier (PLC). Our project uses embedded GSM technology to transmit the data from meter to the service provider.
There are many motivations to improve energy efficiency. Reducing energy use reduces energy costs and may result in a financial cost saving to consumers if the energy savings offset any additional costs of implementing an energy-efficient technology. Reducing energy use is also seen as a solution to the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the International Energy Agency, improved energy efficiency in buildings, industrial processes and transportation could reduce the world's energy needs in 2050 by one third, and help control global emissions of greenhouse gases. Another important solution is to remove government-led energy subsidies that promote high-energy consumption and inefficient energy use in more than half of the countries in the world.
