Designing of Microcontroller based Energy Meter (Smart Energy Meter) for Energy Preserving

Abstract

Electricity is one of the basic requirements of human beings since it is very widely used for domestic, industrial and agriculture applications [1]. In most of the developing countries the energy generated is less than the requirement hence there is scarcity of energy, therefore effective utilization of energy is very important. In the existing system there is no any indication of the energy used to the consumer at regular intervals, only by the end of the month when the bill is received the consumer will come to know the energy used by him. Further the meter reading at present is also manual which needs lot of man power. In this paper a smart energy meter is proposed with which the consumer will be notified the amount of power consumed by the end of the day such that he can plan the consumption of power. Also the power consumed by the consumer will be notified to the distributor as well as consumer such that no manpower is necessary for meter reading.