Cloud Based Smart Energy Meter Using FPGA

The energy calculations in home, industries & commercial places will be implemented. Calculating the energy & threshold value reaches the data is sent to the particular person through wireless module. Home Energy Management focuses on the power management on consumer side, whereas, home appl

Project Title

Cloud Based Smart Energy Meter Using FPGA

Project Area of Specialization

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Project Summary

The energy calculations in home, industries & commercial places will be implemented. Calculating the energy & threshold value reaches the data is sent to the particular person through wireless module. Home Energy Management focuses on the power management on consumer side, whereas, home appliances can be monitored & controlled to balance and optimize their power supply & consumption.
Our project is cloud based smart energy meter using FPGA.

In this project, we wil implement smart energy meter on FPGA(as a controller) and then calculate units, price shedule, peak load and all readings regarding biil payment and then send this data on cloud storage using a communication system and then both consumer and supplier can access it. The consumer benifit is to easily access and track its energy consumption details and also easy bill payments. While the supplier dosn't need to send a person or any worker to get reading manually from the meter or to take pics of the meter, the only requirement is to get access to the cloud storage and get the desired readings.

Project Objectives

Our objective is to solve the problem of our daily lives from  moder solution. Nowadays, different kinds of smart meters are implementing over the world having different kinds of benefits. We are implementing the solution in which we take both consumer as well as supplier on any cloud storage, where they both can access their required data and then take actions accordingly. This solution will support both the consumer as well as the supplier.

Project Implementation Method

Our idea is based on using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as our core. We will be having a transducer interface circuit having voltage and current sensors and some data managing devices interconnected with FPGA through Analog and Digital convertors.
First, we take current and voltage sensors and the interface it with FPGA using analog to digital convertors. We get current, Voltage and Power. Then with the connection of load we will read units consumption and make price sheduling according to thje consumption. Afterwards, we will interface a communication system with FPGA which will send those readinds or data on cloud storage where both consumer and supplier will access.
 

Benefits of the Project

Our project have many benefits. For consumer side, a consumer can easily access his consumption details on run time so that consumer can adjust his consumption according to the peak hour's and the price of bill he's getting. Also easy bill payments and well as easy to maitain record of previous biils.
On supplier side, they will come up with a new modern method of getting meter readings, they don't need to get pic of the meter or to write readings mannual in order to get bill of the meter. All they need is to access cloud storage and get the required bill from the consumer.
This will provide a releif in the expence of the supplier for making bills and we can say the previous method of making bills.

Also we will make a protection system for these smart meters using relays and other protection devices.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

PROJECT DELIVERABLE:

Our main Aim is to generate a solution to the major problems related to Energy crises; more specifically related to Electricity. We will be addressing the following problems and provide following mentioned solutions:

1. Up gradation in Energy Calculations via digital measurements & digital calculations
2. Removal of physical record keeping through sending data via wireless communication using GSM and GPRS technology
3. Measuring values at every minute and alarming the consumer through SMS
4. Yearly record and data being kept on Cloud storage which would be accessible to both the provider and consumer
5. Speed being increased by Removal of Induction meter and use of FPGA
6. Bill predictor, price maintainer, Energy scheduler, consumption monitoring and Notifying peak load hours being introduced

PRODUCT DELIVERABLES:

FPGA is the backbone of our project because we are using it as our Processing and Control unit. The FPGA which we are using is made by Digilent from the family of Spartan 3e. Its model is Nexys-2. It has a built-in combination of four 7-Segment displays but lacks to have an LCD. To solve that trouble we have attached an external Pmod LCD with Fpga to accomplish out tasks. Although it a little bit difficult and long process to accomplish this task using FPGA (as compared to microcontrollers or general electromechanical ones) but those cheap solutions can’t work comfortably for long times and under certain conditions in is even impossible to use a microcontroller.

Then are the sensors, i.e. voltage and current sensors, which work as a basic seed for our project. Voltage sensor as the name suggest would measure (or sense) the value of the incoming voltage. The sensor which we are using is ZMTP-101. It is an analog sensor which is being calibrated to 10 equivalent units up to 300 volts. ACS712 is the other one; it is also an analog current sensor. It is also calibrated in 10 equivalents and can measure up to 20 Amperes of current. Voltage sensor is connected in parallel with load & current sensor in series with the load. Then we have GSM SIM900A which is a 4G supported and has a built-in GPRS system.

Xilinx and Proteus are the Softwares we are using. For online cloud storage we will use anyone from Mega.nz or Google Drive.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Energy

Other Industries

Manufacturing , Others , Security , Telecommunication

Core Technology

Cloud Infrastructure

Other Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT), Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Responsible Consumption and Production

Required Resources

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