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International Journal Of Innovations in Engineering Research And Technology [IJIERT], ISSN: 2394-3696
2nd National Conference on Modern Trends in Electrical Engineering (NCMTEE-2K18)
30-31st March-2018
IOT BASED SMART ENERGY METER
SAGAR DADHE
Asst .Prof. department of Electrical engineering, SKN SCOE, Pandharpur, India
[email protected]

ROHIT MASKE
Department of Electrical engineering, SKN SCOE, Pandharpur, India
[email protected]

ROHIT KALUKHE
Department of Electrical engineering, SKN SCOE, Pandharpur, India
[email protected]

MEGHANANAVARE
Department of Electrical engineering, SKN SCOE, Pandharpur, India [email protected]

ABSTRACT
In this paper the idea of smart energy meter using IOT and Arduino have been introduced. In this method we
are using Arduino because it is energy efficient i.e. it consume less power, it is fastest and has two UARTS.
In this paper, energy meters which is already installed at our houses are not replaced, but a small
modification on the already installed meters can change the existing meters into smart meters.At present our
domestic energy meters wants in the smartness and theft detection. Consequently electricity boards don't
have remotely control over their energy meters. In this paper our Endeavour is to make these energy meters
smart using AI technology like IOT.A proposed.Using internet of things electricity Board can monitor
consumption for monthly bill cycle and whenever there is theft detected. It can remotely cut the power
supply of the consumer. All data exchange can be done over cloud storage.

KEYWORDS: Internet of things, arduino UNO, human touch sensor, ESP 8266 wi-Fi module, MQTT
protocol.

INTRODUCTION
Many developing countries suffering from a widespread theft of electricity. Indian government Leads to
annual losses due to theft of electricity is about 1.5% of our GDP. In this present paper we have emphasized
more on making our energy meter smart rather than detecting at theft.
We are using iot for automation because world is gone beyond the internet of things. Currently there are
almost 9 million interconnected gadgets and it is estimated that it will touch almost 60 billion gadgets by
2020. Main Advantage of this system is that due to internet of things we can monitor and control our energy
meter globally. Here it is possible that number of energy meters can be interconnected with the proper
programming. In this cutting edge Technology arduino UNO is used as a brain of the system it can measure
the consumption and costs the consumer. At the same time this controller continuously communicates with
the web server using ESP 8266 module. This happens due to the proper coding of the controller.

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International Journal Of Innovations in Engineering Research And Technology [IJIERT], ISSN: 2394-3696
2nd National Conference on Modern Trends in Electrical Engineering (NCMTEE-2K18)
30-31st March-2018
BLOCK DIAGRAM

Figure no.1 - Block Diagram of IOT based smart energy meter

ARDUINO UNO
Implement this system we have used arduino uNO as a main controller it uses atmega 328 p microcontroller.
Arduino is having total of 14 pins out of which 6 pins can be as digital input PWM and other 6 pins can be
used as analogue output. It Uses 16 megahertz crystal oscillator. It has serial communication port, USB port
through which we can connect arduino board to the computer as well as mobile. It uses 5 volt supply which
we have given it from adaptor. Arduino UNO is best in its series and it is mostly preferred by engineers. It
uses Arduino IDE 1.0 software.

Photo no.1 – Arduino UNO

HUMAN TOUCH SENSOR
We have used human touch sensor detect electricity theft as a dummy model.it houses ttp 223 b IC which is
capacitive touch switch module. When fingers touches proposed area sensor gets high. That is if anyone
interferes our energy metre theft is detected by this sensor. Power consumption is very low. 3 to 5.5 volt is
required to power up this sensor

ESP 8266 WIFI MODULE

ESP 8266 having inbuilt SOC with integrated TCP/IP protocol stack this feature can give any
microcontroller access to our wi-Finetwork.ESP 8266 is pre-programmed with AT command . That's why
we have to only connect it on arduino board. In our project this Wi-Fi module send data to cloud storage.
Here data is analysed and we can control our hardware using MQTT dashboard. This Wi-Fi module is
having powerful onboard processing and storage capacity so that we can connect sensors to it and other
electronic devices and communicate over internet.
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International Journal Of Innovations in Engineering Research And Technology [IJIERT], ISSN: 2394-3696
2nd National Conference on Modern Trends in Electrical Engineering (NCMTEE-2K18)
30-31st March-2018
MQTT DASHBOARD
We have chosen mqtt dashboard as our server unit. MQTT is nothing but MQ telemetry transport machine to
machine iot protocol that is a Android app(iotmqtt dashboard). Here our Wi-Fi module communicates with
broker via satellite link so that practically we can control our energy metre over internet. It consumes
amount of power and minimum data packets.In this IOT application we can easily design button,
switches,graphs, and so on.

Photo no.2 Screenshot of MQTT Dashboard application

WORKING PRINCIPLE
In this proposed system, we have replaced the ordinary meter by metering module which consist of metering
IC and microcontroller which scans the energy meter automatically and transmits this collected data to the
remote station. Internet of things (IOT) is the main method of communication between the energy meter and
the web server. IOT, being a 2.5G mobile technology, is available all over the world. It is also ideally
suitable for data transfer over an internet between a central location and mobile devices. The reading
information from the energy meter in real time is uploaded to a central database via IOT Each user of the
system may access this information via the Internet. Arduino microcontroller is interfaced with energy meter
and Arduino.

AC

RV1
VCC

~ + POT

RL1 RECTIFIER
12V ~ - 1k
LCD1
LM016L
GND
R1 Q1 L1 TR1
NPN TRSAT2P2S
100ohm ARD1
VDD
VSS

VEE

RW
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D6
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AREF POT
13
PB5/SCK
12
PB4/MISO
RESET 11
~ PB3/MOSI/OC2A
10
~ PB2/OC1B TX VCC
9
~ PB1/OC1A
8
PB0/ICP1/CLKO RX GND
WiFi
ATMEGA328P-PU
1121

7
ANALOG IN

VCC PD7/AIN1
6
A0 ~ PD7/AIN1
5
PC0/ADC0
CH1 A1 ~ PD5/T1/OC0B
PC1/ADC1 4
A2 PD4/T0/XCK
3
PC2/ADC2
TOUCH SENSOR A3 ~ PD3/INT1/OC2B
PC3/ADC3 2
GND A4 PD2/INT0
PC4/ADC4/SDA PD1/TXD 1
A5 0
PC5/ADC5/SCL PD0/RXD

ARDUINO UNO

Figure no.2 – Circuit diagram of energy meter

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International Journal Of Innovations in Engineering Research And Technology [IJIERT], ISSN: 2394-3696
2nd National Conference on Modern Trends in Electrical Engineering (NCMTEE-2K18)
30-31st March-2018
RESULTS
From Results obtained by this project we have supervisory control over our hardware and globally we can
on and off our energy metre using iot application. current transformer at the consumer end measure
consumption of that particular load, costs it and displays it on lCD display. When the theft is detected our
Wi-Fi module communicates with IOT application and all notifications have been displayed on iot
application. Thereafter, we can remotely on and off this energy metre for bill payment and theft detected.

Photo no.3 Smart energy meter (Hardware)

Photo no. 4 – Screenshot of output

CONCLUSION
In the era of smart city advancement, this project is concentrated on the connectivity & networking factor of
the IOT.Hence it reduces the wastage of energy and bring awareness among all of us.
Using this project we have achieved following objectives:
1) Ease of accessing information from consumer over IOT
2) It can detect theft and communicate over internet to the server unit.
3) We can monitor our energy meter and remotely ON and OFF supply.

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International Journal Of Innovations in Engineering Research And Technology [IJIERT], ISSN: 2394-3696
2nd National Conference on Modern Trends in Electrical Engineering (NCMTEE-2K18)
30-31st March-2018
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