SMART ENERGY METER USING ARDUINO AND GSM SIM900A

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2
Chapter 1.1 objective of this chapter:..................................................................................... 2
Chapter 1.2 Project Background ............................................................................................ 2
Chapter 1.2.1 summary and overview of the project .......................................................... 2
Chapter 1.2.2 Current Scenario .......................................................................................... 3
Chapter 1.2.3 problem statement and motivation ............................................................... 4
Chapter 1.3 Approaches taken ............................................................................................... 5
Chapter 1.4 Project as a solution ............................................................................................ 5
Chapter 1.5 projects Aims and Objectives ............................................................................. 5
Chapter 1.5.1 AIM .............................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 1.5.2 Objectives .................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 1.6 Structure of the report ......................................................................................... 6
Chapter 1.7 summary of the chapter ...................................................................................... 6
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 1.1 objective of this chapter:
The objective of this chapter is to provide the overview and total idea of the project
“Smart Electric Energy Meter using Arduino”. It also provides the core concept of the
project and to introduce the problem background as planned. This chapter helps to
initiate the project by introducing different project aspects:

1. Project background
2. Current scenario
3. Problem statement and motivation
4. Approaches taken
5. Project as a solution
6. Aims and objectives
7. Project plan

Chapter 1.2 Project Background

Chapter 1.2.1 summary and overview of the project
Chapter 1.2.2 Current Scenario
According to report of ‘department for Business, Energy & industrial Strategy of UK’.
UK government install 11 Million of smart meter in domestic and non-domestic site. At
the end 2020 smart metering programme aims will be achieved by installing 53 million
smart meters. It estimated that smart meters will take £300 million off consumer’s bills
in 2020, rising to more than £1.2 billion a year by 2030- an average annual saving of
£47 per household. Further this report provides a smart meter penetration rate of
electric meters by region. All together 800 Million of smart meter would have been
installed globally by 2020. While Europe leads the penetration rate- growing from 15%
in 2010 to 85% in 2020. China will be the largest install based with over 435 million of
meters followed by the US with 135 million meters.

According to the report which is published in Kathmandu post, Nepal electricity

authority (NEA) are planning to replace around 90,000 traditional analog meter with
smart meter for testing purpose. Further, NEA published a report about Kathmandu
valley smart metering project, in this report they are planning to install 90,000 digital
meter and smart meter. further details information is in appendix section I.
Chapter 1.2.3 problem statement and motivation
In Nepal. The current electricity billing system is completely manual. The electric meter
is situated in the house, office and factories etc. the energy meter reading is collected
by meter readers on their fortnightly or monthly visits to the premises. This system has
disadvantage of appointing meter reader to take the meter reading, effects consumer
privacy etc. according to report of smart meter project which was published by
Government of Nepal ministry of communication and IT. Nepal has one of the highest
electricity output losses globally, recording 22.9% in 2017 during the transmission and
distribution process. NEA plan and leading several projects to improve this problem
by implementation smart metering, smart grid project. After implementing this system
meter loss analysis, advance analytics solutions of track energy consumption and
check power thefts is possible which helps to reduce problems. Some of the problem
observed in analog meter reading are as follows:

 Meter reading and other related task like bill payment and line cut system are
performed by many staffs. i.e. large number of employees are required.
 Billing errors due to careless of staff (human errors).
 In context of Nepal (meter reading is carried out in once in 3 months due to
road condition and situation of place. So, it creates a lot of problems to
consumers) source: NEA https://www.nea.org.np

Case Study: Digital tech addressing Brazil’s power theft crisis. Rising incident of
electricity theft in Brazil was costing its government billons in lost revenue. On
average, 8% of energy in Brazil was stolen from grid each year, reaching a staggering
40% in some areas.

Solution: Siemens used innovation Smart Meter software to access, collect and
process data from meters. Integration the platform with the billing and management
system to ensure efficient energy billing to users.
Chapter 1.3 Approaches taken
The following approach will be adopted during the construction of the proposal system:
1. A detail study will be carried out on the problem domain.
2. A workable and familiar with client product will be designed.
3. Detail requirement of hardware and software of smart meter will be gathered
4. Design a workable and practicable, feasible smart energy meter.
Chapter 1.4 Project as a solution
The main solution of the above mention problem is to change Analog Meter Reading
(AMR) to digital(smart) meter reading system. On digital energy meter data of meter
is passed through user by SMS services. On my purposed system. The analog meter
used to detected pulse of analog meter and count it with serial monitor. Send the
information of analog meter which consists of unit, price of energy consumed by
analog meter.

Chapter 1.5 projects Aims and Objectives

Chapter 1.5.1 AIM
The main aim of the project is to develop Arduino based energy meter and send
information of meter through GSM module via SMS to the user.
Chapter 1.5.2 Objectives
 To develop a smart energy meter that sends information of meter through user
using SMS services.
  To implement the knowledge if hardware, software and programming language
on IOT projects.
 To understand and deal with a client for this project as a part of requirement.

Chapter 1.6 Structure of the report

Chapter 1.7 summary of the chapter