Smart Energy Meter with Cloud Connectivity

ABSTRACT

The main tools for allowing customers to communicate openly and transparently with the company and other stakeholders are their electricity bills. However, last year due to pandemics, some residents petitioned the Madras high court claiming TANGEDCO's technique to measure power was arbitrary and unreasonable during the lockdown that COVID provoked. This was done amid complaints about excessive electricity bills. When compared to bills from other states, TANGEDCO's white meter card for energy bills is found to provide insufficient information on use and rates, according to a survey by the certain associations. Power bills urgently need to be redesigned to include comprehensive billing details and accurate assessments of electricity consumption from closed homes or homes in restricted zones. [4] We proposed and designed a Smart Home Energy Meter Monitoring System to solve this crisis. It consists of three systems. First system Customized built energy meter with LCD. [6] Second system Wi-Fi module with the Microcontroller (ATMega328P) and an alert system. Third system Database (MySQL database). [12] The quantity of power used by the device is measured by an energy meter user and every two months, the final reading of the power consumption is taken by the micro controller where the electricity bill calculation program has been pre-programmed to give the value of power consumed during the two months and amount to be paid by the user and [4] It will be shown on the Energy Meter's LCD. The micro controller with a built-in Wi-Fi module (ESP8266) will send these displayed data to the service provider's database. [2] An alert system has been added to counteract the hefty usage and electricity bills to create awareness to the consumer about the slab-wise tariffs increase in the per-unit cost data that has been set by TANGEDCO. [10] The alert has been set in a way that the consumer receives a message for every 200 unit usage of power. The third system is a database created using MySQL database to transport the data to the service provider. © 2022 IEEE.