Modish Energy Datum using LoRa Technology

Abstract

The advancement in emerging technologies to make life easier has brought a boon to the world of innovations. In the rural parts of the country, still it has been seen in door-to-door electricity bill collection where a person from the electricity department needs to visit each home to take a household electric meter reading. This manual process of reading bills is a rigid and time taking task. Errors in the reading bill such as extra amount and crime committed in name of reading bills have been recorded in the last few years. In times of pandemic, it became more difficult to read bills, and consumers were pressurized to pay bills of more than 9- 10 months at a single time. To overcome this, there is a need for a smart energy meter that could automate the system of bill reading. This paper introduces the idea of the smart energy meter using LoRa technology. LoRa module which can work with a microprocessor can be very useful to implement this idea. LoRa can transmit a huge amount of data accurately up to a large distance without any significant loss. In big cities, smart energy meter is being used which can read the units and send bills. But since these devices need high-speed network connectivity, hence it is not possible to implement the same technology in rural parts of the country. This paper tends to implement a smart energy meter that could make the existing meter smart, rather than installing a new meter. The implemented idea uses very low energy and works without internet connectivity. The stored data can be accessed by the department globally as it is stored in the cloud.