Abstract:
In this present era, the use of wireless automation in almost all the fields of power and the
technology of electronic metering has gone through rapid technical growth developments. So
in regards to that demand for a dependable and cost efficient automatic meter reading system
has also increased. In present day Bangladesh an employee of Electricity board that is known
as line man voyages house to house take the meter reading manually to prepare the bill. It is
both time consuming and costly at the same time and the error rate is higher there are many
incidents where a consumer is charged more then what he/she is used up and also the bill
paying system is also very time consuming and painful . Although e-bill paying system is
introduced in our country the use of this is very low among the masses.
The main objective of this project was to build a system that avoid the high production and
maintenance costs in the existing meter reading technology. Smart meter will be connected to
web server through Internet. Smart meter consist of Esp8266 microcontroller chip and to
monitor a smart phone etc. The ESP8266 is used to send the meter reading to our web servers
and our mobile app in which consumers can monitor their power usage, monthly bill and with
the help of the app bill can also be paid. Also this system is theft proof.
