Development of Energy Meter Monitoring System (EMMS) for Data Acquisition and Tampering Detection using IoT

Abstract

Electricity Crisis has become a serious issue, since the demand of power is increased over its production. One of the major challenges in electricity management is misuse of the power consumption due to electricity theft in public area. Energy Meter Monitoring System (EMMS) comprises of Raspberry Pi board and it mainly focuses on the implementation concept of Internet of Things (IoT) as the underlying framework to achieve real time monitoring of energy meter readings. The main theme is to have a system which can be installed with existing electronic meters, instead of developing a new smart meter. Raspberry pi connected to the meter continuously monitors the data sent by energy meter, read the data and print the actual values of parameters. These actual values of parameters are further communicated along with decimals and appropriate SI units. Go-daddy’s web server is developed and its database will store the data from the energy meter in front of its serial number. A multipurpose android application is designed to get the information regarding voltage ratings, current ratings, energy consumption and the meter tampering details which further can be useful to take actions against those customers. Upon providing the serial number of meter in the application, tampering status of energy meter is traced along with the basic parameter values.