Low cost arduino based smart energy monitoring system using internet of things

Abstract

The proposed concept promotes smart energy monitoring system using Internet of Things (IoT) techniques. This wireless energy monitoring system can collect the parameters from the digital energy meter through the internet communication. In addition with the system can generate real time power consumption report in online. So that, the user can save the electricity and get the awareness about the power utilization. Now a days, the electricity board using traditional analog meter as well as digital meter even though the reading was not suitable for longer operating purposes as it spends much human and material resource. It brings additional problems in calculation of readings and billing manually. It's a hard task to maintain the power as per the growing requirements. If the consumer is not available, the billing process will be pending and human operator needs to revisit every consumer's house and the operator needs to go to their houses to disconnect the power supply if bill not paid. So, the problem which arises in the billing system can become inaccurate and inefficient. The availability of wireless communication media has made the exchange of information fast, secured and accurate, a system called smart energy meter that collects the energy consumption from residential as well as corporate zones and send it directly to the central server where processing is done on that data for preparation of bills to overcome the drawback of manual billing system.