Reducing Theft of Electricity by Using IOT

Abstract

IOT connects objects to the internet allowing data and services to be stored and retrieved the demand for person-to-person and thing-to-person communication as well as machine-to-machine communication without the need for human involvement drives the evolution of internet of things services power is one of the few non-renewable resources we utilize in our daily lives and it is used in every country resulting in significant losses due to electricity theft of power will be a major concern a smart energy meter is used to reduce electricity theft an energy meter is a device that calculates the cost of power utilized by homes companies or electrical gadgets in its most basic form as a result there is less electricity theft by revealing the state of the energy meter at the power offices back end a government official can identify a dishonest user in this paper through GPIO pins the energy meter communicates with the raspberry pi the GPIO pins get the effective data from the energy meter and transfer it to the raspberry pi and government officials can monitor the status of the energy meter in the form of graphs on the back end if the raspberry pi is linked to the network.