Energy Meter Monitoring And Theft Detection Based on IOT

In today?s era the usage of electricity is increasing too much. Possibly, we can say that without electricity it?s become pretty difficult to survive in this time. It is also becoming responsibility of electricity service provider to provide electricity to its each consumer. First, they provide elec

Project Title

Energy Meter Monitoring And Theft Detection Based on IOT

Project Area of Specialization

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Project Summary

In today’s era the usage of electricity is increasing too much. Possibly, we can say that without electricity it’s become pretty difficult to survive in this time. It is also becoming responsibility of electricity service provider to provide electricity to its each consumer. First, they provide electricity connection with energy meter from which they measure amount of energy the consumer is utilizing. The service provider takes charges of consuming of energy from each consumer by sending meter readers in each house school hospital or any organization to collect the reading of energy meters which allocate at each consumer area. Through these reading the service provider send bills to consumers. That raises expenditure of service provider also takes a lot of time to collect the whole data. Consumer unable get knowledge of at what amount of energy he is consuming daily basis or monthly until he will not receive the bill. Another issue is energy theft even service provider cannot find out that who one else is stealing energy & from which energy meter.  For all solution we proposed system called “smart energy meter”. With this consumer   can get information of energy consumption on daily basis and monthly wise through SMS. Also, this data will available for consumer on website. More importantly when energy theft tries to attach illegal connection to your meter than system send SMS to you & your service provider. 

Electricity provider do a lot of effort to collect energy meter reading of each consumer. They have 
hired thousands of employees who job is only to take energy meter reading & they are using 
sufficient amount budget on them. Many times, error like extra bill amount, or notification electric 
board even though the bill is paid are common errors. Also, Energy theft are destroying the utilities 
of electric system in revenue in each year.it is quite difficult for  energy provider to check and solve 
out theft by going area by area. So, the remedy for all these issue of electricity provider & 
consumers is smart energy meter with internet of thing. This system will eliminate third party role 
between electricity provider & consumers. Along with  this energy theft issue is also being resolved 
by making consumer & provider connection secure by current and voltage sensors
 
 

Project Objectives

•  our objectives are to solve the electricity issue that are coming from the present Energy meters and faulty connection ,theft connection in result the loss of power consumption due to unrelaible managment .
• now era we have to make an internet of things System we can see and know  the power consumption of customer through an SMS which is between Controller and customer
• Next objective is to theft detection found whenever any customer try to make an illegal connecction to the Energy meter the circuit will alert and send an sms to controller and he will resend sms to customer the challan of an illegal connection.
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Project Implementation Method

The hardware implementation of this projected system consists of microcontroller, Energy Meter 
with optocoupler for connecting with processor, appliances connected through relays to micro 
controller. To communicate with server, we need Wi-Fi/ GPRS. The energy consumption is being 
calculated using the energy optocoupler IC and microcontroller. 
 As we can see on a working meter that one LED continuously blinks, it is nothing but indicates 
the count of power. So, when LED blinks, the units are counted. Normally, 3200 blinks are one 
unit. The LED whenever blinks it produces only 0.7v which is not suitable for microcontroller to 
capture, so to remove this error we are using optocoupler. Protecting From energy theft Three 
transformer are connected to load from may supply through microcontroller. The microcontroller 
checks the reading from one potential & two current transformers. The microcontroller measures 
current between two CT, supply voltage variation from the utility to protect the customer 
equipment.  
 

Benefits of the Project

There are many benefits of this Smart Energy meter based on IOT like 

• Eliminates manual monthly meter readings
•  Monitors the electric system in real time
• Encourages more efficient use of power resources
• Provides responsive data for balancing electric loads while reducing blackouts
• Enables dynamic pricing
• Avoids the capital expense of building new power plants Helps to optimize the profit with existing resources
• Protected from theft connection and illegal
• it saves power consumption from unlikely connection
• relaible System and applicable to industries and manufactored company
• Transition to smart meters helps energy suppliers balance the load on the system and provide better safety and stability. We are going to talk about this benefit later in the article.
•  Smart meters help people revise their individual power consumption habits and contribute to prudent and responsible consumer behavior.
• Balanced load in the system.  In the pros section, we have already mentioned the value of smart metering data for energy suppliers. Combining the data on consumer demand and the load on the system, 
•  Combined with smart meters, IoT systems for energy storage help households become more resilient and go completely off-grid in case of any problems with local energy supply. Modern storage systems put full control over storage resources to the homeowner’s hand, enable the management of critical appliances and stored energy
• The service provider takes charges of consuming of energy from each consumer by sending  meter 
  readers in each house school hospital or any organization to collect the reading of energy  meters 
  which allocate at each consumer area. Through these reading the service provider send  bills to 
  consumers. That raises expenditure of service provider also takes a lot of time to collect  the whole 
  data. Consumer unable get knowledge of at what amount of energy he is consuming  daily basis or 
  monthly until he will not receive the bill. Another issue is energy theft even  service provider cannot 
  find out that who one else is stealing energy & from which energy meter.  For all solution we 
  proposed system called “smart energy mete

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

 MICROCONTROLLER  to detect 
and control the energy meter from power theft and solve it by remotely disconnect and reconnecting 
the service (line) of a particular consumer. An SMS will be sent automatically to the utility central 
server through GSM module whenever unauthorized activities detected and a separate message 
will send back to the microcontroller in order to disconnect the unauthorized supply. A unique 
method is implemented by interspersed the GSM feature into smart meters with Solid state relay 
to deal with the non-technical losses, billing difficulties, and voltage fluctuation complication

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Security

Other Industries

Energy , Legal , Others

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Affordable and Clean Energy, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production

Required Resources

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