CONSUMER MONITORING METER SYSTEM
PROJECT REPORT
ABSTRACT
In this paper the idea of consumer monitoring sys-
tem using IoT and Arduino have been introduced.
The major advantage behind such a project is that
the energy meters which is already installed at our
houses are not replaced, but a small modification on
the already installed meters can help the customers
to monitor their daily power usage and take mea-
sures to minimize electricity bills. The development
of consumer monitoring meter system (CMMS) which
is having capabilities like remote monitoring, control-
ling over the usage of energy will lead to transparency
in the energy metering system. CMMS give the infor-
mation about the daily usage of power with an alarm
signal if their daily quota of energy usage exceeds.
INTRODUCTION
Electricity plays an important role in the development
of any country. Electricity is the necessity of every
household task and daily office work like usage of
different appliances, computers and machines.Being
electrical engineering students, it is our responsibil-
ity to develop some technology to decrease the over
usage of power.The most advanced type of energy
meter, smart meters also relay on sending the infor-
mation about the energy usage to the corresponding
station network.This thought brought us to the in-
novation of “Consumer Monitoring Meter System”
(CMMS).
LITERATURE SURVEY
The present system only provides feedback to the cus-
tomer at the end of 2 months about how much power
is consumed in the form of a bill. The consumer has
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no way to track their energy usage on a more imme-
diate basis. The consumers are growing exponentially
fast and load on power providing division is rapidly
increasing In a developing country like India the ef-
fort of collecting electricity utility meter reading once
every 2 months is very difficult and time consuming
task with the consumer having no knowledge about
how the bill is being prepared. In the proposed sys-
tem consumer can do power management by know-
ing energy usage time to time. Consumer meter read-
ing system using IOT present an efficient and cost ef-
fective way to transfer the information of energy con-
sumed by the consumer wirelessly [2].
TKM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
D EPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS
METHODOLOGIES
In this project we make a Consumer Monitoring Me-
ter System using Arduino and ESP8266 Wi-Fi module
which can not only sends you a SMS/Email of your
electricity Bill but also you can monitor the energy
uses anytime and from anywhere in the world. Here
we have used a Current Sensor ACS712 to measure
the energy consumption. We will take help of IFTTT
platform to link our Wi-Fi to SMS/E-mail notifica-
tions. We will also use MQTT Dashboard Android
App to monitor our Energy uses.
COMPONENTS REQUIRED
• Arduino Uno
• ESP12/NodeMCU.
• ACS712-30Amp Current sensor
• Any AC Appliance
• Male-Female Wire.
WORKING
There is one analog pin available in NodeMCU
(ESP12), we could use that pin but ESP series can take
upto 3.3 volts on their pins. As we are using current
sensor which can give upto 5 Volts so, it can damage
our Wi-Fi module that’s why we are not using stan-
dalone NodeMCU
To make output of current sensor 3.3V instead of 5V,
we cannot use voltage divider circuit between Cur-
rent sensor and analog pin of NodeMCU because as
we discussed above about the current sensor that at
2.5Volts output, current is 0Amp. So, Arduino will
read the current sensor value through analog pin and
send it to the Wi-Fi module ESP12 using Serial com-
munication. Use voltage divider circuit at receiver
pin of NodeMCU so that receiver pin can get up to
3.3 Voltage level To monitor our energy uses over the
internet, we have to use MQTT broker. We will use
MQTT broker as AdaFruit IO platform and follow the
below process to make this IoT Energy Meter.
• Setting up an AdaFruit account for storing Elec-
tricity meter readings
• Create Applet in IFTTT for Triggering
SMS/Email for Energy Meter.
• Codes for Arduino and ESP12 Wi-Fi module.
RESULTS ANALYSIS AND CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
Figure 1: Circuit connection depicting the various compo-
nents used in consumer monitoring meter system this con-
nection will be enclosed in a protective case making it easy
for its maintenance.
CONCLUSION
We developed a Consumer Monitoring Meter System
which deals with many of the problems related to
electricity crisis. The proposed system can make the
common man aware about their day to day consump-
tion thereby introducing measures to have a control
over their over usage. Also for the assessment of
electricity bill this system can make a great change
through proposed consumer meter reading system.
Using this project we can reduce the manual efforts
to take the readings from the energy meter which is
cost effective and reduces man power. The proposed
system offer much insight into how to lower the elec-
tricity bills.Also they can monitor the meter readings
and corresponding bills regularly without the need
for waiting for the monthly bill to arrive. The eco-
nomic advantage by using our system is that it will
help the consumers to monitor their power usage and
take measures to avoid huge electricity bills. It pro-
motes efficient use of energy resources. The accuracy
in receiving the bill will be increased by using this.
SUBMITTED BY
Abdussalam Yoonus
Fathima Shijad
Fuad Ahmed
Jacob John
Figure 2: the power and the bill output dials which can be
viewed in the adafrut iot platform. The customer can login
to this platform using their id credentials.
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