Smart Meter Reading Monitoring and Billing System

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.