International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) Volume: 09 Issue: 05 | May 2022
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Prepaid Energy Meter Recharge And Monitoring Using App Kaliappan.S1, Jenisha.E2 , Elankavi.E3, Naveen Thilak.R.K4 1Associate
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology [autonomous], Coimbatore, India 234Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology [autonomous], Coimbatore, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------fledged online billing to make it a lot easier. Since we Abstract - Energy - a word which rules the entire universe.
couldn’t monitor the usage, many didn’t know the importance of saving energy. The new system of monitoring of usage may help to reduce the usage. As compared to the old scheme , this also provides break free electricity to users after the limit of their plan is finished.
As we all know that in our daily life we are using different forms of energy. One such important and foremost form of energy is ELECTRICITY. Electricity can be produced from different forms like solar, wind, thermal etc.. The production of electricity is increasing day by day. But the usage of electricity is not reduced and also causes the shortage of electricity. The Tamil Nadu election board has taken many steps to overcome this issue. Still there is no solution for this. We underwent research and found that if we reduce the excess usage of electricity and wastage of electricity , we can save nearly 20 percent of electricity. So that only Tamil Nadu electrical board provides 100 watts free supply to each and every home.Growth and development of any country depends on effective monitoring, measurement, billing and access control is imperative management of energy. For most of the homes that amount of electricity is enough. The energy measurement and billing system is automated. This application will allow the consumers to monitor and visualize their consumption pattern and billing system. This application includes prepaid and postpaid systems to the consumers depending upon their need they can choose.
2.1 Methodology Smart meters data are collected, stored and analyzed for energy usage and billing purposes. Omijeh and Ighalo introduced prepaid energy meters but it doesn’t not provide real monitoring and access control. Later, an energy meter reading is compared with the revolving credit information by the microcontrollers for effective monitoring and to manage switching the device. Bluetooth is employed which is restricted to within the 100 meter range. Then introduced a replacement concept which incorporates a postpaid scheme when prepaid balance is drawn in order to produce uninterruptible power supply. The diagram of this project is shown below.
Key Words: Prepaid energy meter, Blynk app, IOT, monitor, postpaid system.
1.INTRODUCTION In the current day, the electricity bills are paid postpaid through applications or reaching the billing office in person. We also know that we won’t know the exact amount of energy we are using and the bill we will be paying at the end of the month. So we came up with an idea of a prepaid energy system, which allows us to recharge the required amount of energy when required and will also extend itself to postpaid if we exceed the recharge plan . This helps us to see the usage, pay easier and also creates awareness to the users.
Fig- 2.1.1 Block diagram To overcome the present prepaid/postpaid system and monitor using apps is developed and is tested and observed and it is working successfully and consistently. This system not only reduces the labor cost but also increases the accuracy of meter reading and saves a huge amount of time. Since this system is a digitally controlled system, the speed of the operative services is drastically enhanced and the manual transaction is maximum avoided.
The postpaid method doesn’t have transparency between the user and the electricity billing department. So we weren’t able to monitor the usage of the data. The postpaid method was a bit old as we all know that technology has grown a lot these days. So we brought full-
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