Project Proposal

Prepaid energy Meter for load Estimation, Bill

estimation, and load shedding management
using GSM

Submitted By

Mohsin Shahzad BSET01151006

Ayyan Tahir BSET01151007
Ramiz Irfan BSET01151008

Project Supervisor
Sir Syed Muhammad Hamedoon

DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE

Semester W2018
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH

THE MOST GRACIOUS

THE MOST MERCIFUL

 Prepaid energy Meter for load Estimation, Bill
estimation, and load shedding management
using GSM

Mohsin Shahzad BSET01151006

Ayyan Tahir BSET01151007

Ramiz Irfan BSET01151008

A project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of

B.S Technology Electrical

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Department of Technology, University of Lahore, Lahore

DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE

Semester W2018
 DECLARATION

We certify that our project titled “Prepaid energy Meter for load Estimation, Bill estimation,
and load shedding management using GSM” is our own work and it is not presented
elsewhere for the degree requirement of BS Technology. All sources used and any help received
in the preparation of this dissertation have been acknowledge. We hereby declare that we have
not submitted this material, either in whole or in part, for any other degree at this or any other
institution.

Mohsin Shahzad BSET01151006 ____________

Ayyan Tahir BSET01151007 ____________

Ramiz Irfan BSET01151008 ____________

 DEDICATION

Every challenge needs selfless efforts as well as guidance of elders, especially those who are
very close to our heart. We dedicate it to our parents for their endless love, support and
encouragement throughout our life.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

All praises to Almighty Allah who bestowed upon us his blessing, which enable us to accomplish
this scientific assignment objectively and successfully. We owe sincere gratitude to our
supervisor who extended every possible cooperation, guidance and advice during the completion
of this work, without whose cooperation this project can never been materialized. Thanks are
also to our teacher of department for their encouragement and co-operation. We shall always
keep on record the nice company provided to us by our friends and the cherished happy moments
spent with them. We pay our deepest gratitude with deepest sense of respect to our parent whose
love and affection kept us steadfast and enables us to attain target and goal of academic life. We
are extremely indebted to our loving brothers and sisters whose constant encouragement
provided us with the impetus that was necessary for attaining academic initiatives.
 ABSTRACT

Electricity is an essential requirement for leading a happy life. The old meter consists of rotating
aluminium disc mounted on a spindle between two electro magnets. Speed of rotation of disc is
proportional to the power and this power is integrated by the use of counter mechanism and gear
trains. It comprises of two silicon steel laminated electromagnets i.e., series and shunt magnets.
Then the digital meter is introduced but these are also not efficient because they contain digital
signal processor or high performance microprocessors are used in digital electric meters. Similar
to the analog meters, voltage and current transducers are connected to a high resolution ADC.
Once it converts analog signals to digital samples, voltage and current samples are multiplied
and integrated by digital circuits to measure the energy consumed. It is programmed in such a
way that it calculates energy according to the tariff and other parameters like power factor,
maximum demand etc and stores all these values in a non-volatile memory EEPROM. It is to be
correctly used and achieved many statistical errors overcome in the process of monthly customer
billing. This idea of wireless data transmission is being planned to decrease the human
involvement to gather the monthly reading and to minimize the technical problems about the
billing process. The main aim of the Programmable energy meter project is to estimate energy
consumed by load with the help of controller and prepaid system for billing and also control the
load shedding timing. Programmable energy meter using GSM technology, that enables energy
Supplier companies to read the energy meter reading frequently. These pulses occur depending
on energy consumed GSM to send sms on amount of energy consumed.
 INTRODUCTION

Utility billing is yet unavoidable in the World as for concern post-paid energy meter. In Pakistan,
utilities are using a conventional way of billing. A meter reader goes Home to home takes the
meter reading and note down it, manually. These readings are brought to utility administration
office. The criterion of utility billing is applied according to the utility service rules and
regulations. The employee of the utility goes door to door again and gave the bill slips of the
utility to the respective consumer. energy meter are used for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) to
increase the accuracy of meter reading. For instance, a utility person might not read the correct
value of the total energy consumed that is displayed on energy meter or may intentionally give
lower value than the exactly read one .Auto billing is one of the suitable ways to overcome the
flaws of conventional billing; since conventional billing contains wastage of time and resources
as well. In auto billing there is no more need of manual meter reading and bill slips.
 APPLICATIONS

1.) In Homes
2.) In Festivals where electricity is required just for a few days.
3.) Rental accommodation
4.) Industries and Factories
5.) In Malls
 OBJECTIVE

The objective is that the old energy meter are not giving any secure info to the consumer or a
person it’s difficult to read reading and estimate the cost of bill from the meter so these all work
are doing manually by the consumer .By using the programmable energy meter all the estimation
of bill is in your hand through GSM and control the billing by giving the balance and the total
cost of monthly unit is between the giving balance and the load is automatically control by load
shedding. World is progressing day by day and technology on its peak and improvement in all
technology power or any other field is rapidly increases due to demand of customer and the
improvement is make work more easy more efficient . So our energy meter is the improver
version of the old energy meter due to its wireless control and other feature like bill cost
estimation, and sms info so all the information of consumer load is in palm of consumer.
 LITERATURE REVIEW

Over 40 countries have implemented prepaid meters in their markets. In United Kingdom the
system, has been in use for well over 70 years with about 3.5 million consumers. The prepaid
program in South Africa was started in 1992, since then they have installed over 6 million
meters. Other African counties such as Sudan, Madagascar are following the South African
success. The concept has found ground in Argentina and New Zealand with few thousands of
installations.The Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB), Malaysia, has awarded a contract to a local
manufacturer to supply 1,080 prepaid meters. Countries such as Thailand, Bangladesh,
Singapore, and Iran have been showing increased interest in adopting prepaid system.
 MATHADOLOGY

This project entitled “Programmable Energy Meter” is essentially a project based on the
applications of embedded system. In this project we have used various hardware elements like
controller, relay, energy meter GSM module etc. and various other circuit elements. In the design
of the system using above hardware elements we will supplement by various software packages
for coding, debugging, and simulating the design. The various processes involved in the design is
given below:

i. Selection of Controller.
ii. Coding of Controller.
iii. Component Selection.
iv. Selection of parameters (load,tarrif,powerfactor)
v. Selection of GSM Module and interface with mobile using sms
vi. Selection of Relay
vii. LCD Display
 REFERENCE

www.electronicsforu.com

www.wikipedia.com

www.energymeter.com

www.thinkfast.com
 Scope

World is gradually going toward development in all fields like power generation technology, all
the manual woks are transferred to automatic by which work is done in less time and more
effective then the work is done by manually. So our programmable energy meter is a wirelessly
controlled device not like old energy meter which are not wireless function as this energy meter
worked. Our programmable energy meter gives all the reading of load or bill whenever you want
in the palm of consumer hand and consumer can be controlled the bill by trip the load which are
not in use for that time so this is a competent device which has a vast scope in feature.