A Novel Model for IoT-Based Meter Using ATmega328P Microcontroller and Google Cloud Store

Abstract

Electricity is indispensable and lifeblood of modern society. There is overwhelming evidence for the notion that the percentage of households with access to electricity has increased from 55% in 2001 to more than 80% in 2017 according to data compiled by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) as well as more than 1 lac cases piled up in Uttar Pradesh related to power theft in 2018. This study is an attempt to address the issue faced by consumers in Conventional (Electromechanical) energy meter. The electricity department hires human labor just for recording energy consumption at residential buildings on a monthly basis so there is a loss of financial asset of a government. So by just taken all the problems in an account, we came up with an idea of IoT-based meter. This paper focuses on implementation and design of Internet of thing-based energy meter using ATmega328P microcontroller. The proposed system uses ATmega328P microcontroller to communicate to ESP8266 node MCU (wifi module) via SPI protocol for serial data communication to replicate the functionality. ESP8266 node MCU (wifi module) sends the data to Google Cloud Store for visualization of a real-time database of energy consumption at the residential building with a systematic and practical analysis of a load profile. The captured data of Google Cloud Store can be sent to MATLAB software with the help of C#.net for evaluating load forecasting using artificial neural network algorithm (short term). This paper is not limited to only load forecasting as we know electrical load depends on various factor like (day of the week, the month of the year) but also provide you home automation when ESP8266 node MCU (wifi module) interface with Blynk app via MQTT Messaging Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol.