Embedded Based Digital Energy Measurement for Improved Metering and Billing System

In this research paper,the proposed concept is to replace the traditional manual meter reading. Now a days the traditional manual Meter 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. The number of Electricity consumers is increasing in great extent. It became a hard task in handling and maintaining the power as per the growing requirements. Presently maintenance of the power is also an important task as the human operator goes to the consumer’s house and produces the bill as per the meter reading. If the consumer is not available, the billing process will be pending and human operator again needs to revisit. Going to each and every consumer’s house and generating the bill is a laborious task and requires lot of time. It becomes very difficult especially in rainy season. If any consumer did not pay the bill, the operator needs to go to their houses to disconnect the power supply. These processes are time consuming and difficult to handle. Moreover, 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. The human error can open an opportunity for corruption done by the human meter reader. So the problem which arises in the billing system can become inaccurate and inefficient.But, in this proposal greatly reduces the manpower, save time and operates efficiently without any human interference. And the person who is checking the amount electricity consumed by the user automatically using the microcontroller chip. Our proposed model and project work aims that a new approach for data security and transmission of data using ZIGBEE technology.