Electronic Energy Meter with Instant Billing

Abstract

This paper presents automated billing of energy meter. It is just like postpaid mobile connection. In the proposed work, the front end is user friendly and one can work on this software with minimum knowledge of computers and can read the meter by sitting in the office. This is useful for billing purpose in electricity board authority. A GSM modem is connected to the energy meter. Each modem will be having its own sim (ususal mobile phone sim). A PC is connected to other modem, which contains the data base. The module is designed such that user can have the complete usage details about the energy meter. Just like postpaid mobile connections, one can know our due bill instantly and can even pay for it. The SIM card used is implemented in energy meter and it sends a message to the user about the due bill. A LCD is used in the hardware module for the user interface. The LCD displays the current usage and units consumed. After the usage of each unit the amount and total units will be incremented whenever user wants to know his/her bill he/she can message a given code to sim card attached to the meter and can know his/her present bill. The user can pay the amount just by knowing the given code which is fed in the meter.