Digitized Meter and Invoice Generation

Abstract

The representative of electricity board monthly come and visits every residential and corporate zone and manually collects the readings from electricity meter. The data is recorded on a piece of paper along with a snap shot of the meter. There after the officials reads the snap shot and readings of the meter and then feed it to the local software for bill calculations. Finally the bills are sent. We as a consumer then make the payment for the received bill. Such a tedious process is this. Man made mistakes can be in huge numbers. Human resources are wasted and many other problems do occur. We finally thought of building a system that will do the above process automatically. The advancing mobile communication technology and the decrease in costs make it possible to combine mobile technology into electricity board automation systems. We propose a system that collects the consuming energy from residential and corporate zones and send it directly to the central-Server. The traditional approach for collection of energy consumption data is that the representatives of electricity board monthly comes and visit every residential and corporate and manually reads the consumption data from the meter. The data is recorded on a piece of paper along with a snap shot of the meter and finally submitted to the local electricity board office. There after the officials reads the snap shot and readings of the meter and then feed it to the local software for Invoice. Finally the bills are dispatched. We as a consumer then make the payment for the received bill. Such a hectic process is this. Man made mistakes can be countless. Human resources wasted and many other problems do occur. We finally thought of building a system that will do the above process automatically. Every Energy consumption meter will be attached to a microcontroller unit that will scan the meter reading after every one month. The meter reading will transmitted wirelessly to the local server along with the meter number. This data will be processed by the server and generates the bill automatically. Once the bill is generated an SMS alert will be send to the owner's mobile number. According to the market need of Electric Meter. Now the system will use wireless controller. It is used since application don't need high speed data rate, need to be low powered as well as low cost.