Wireless Prepaid Energy Metering using RF and Arduino Technology

The billing process of electricity consumption which we are using at present is very long process and requires lot of man power. The energy billing in India is error prone and also time and labor consuming. Errors get introduced at every stage of energy billing like errors with electro-mechanical meters, human errors while noting down the meter reading and error while processing the paid bills and the due bills. There are many cases where the bill is paid and then is shown as a due amount in the next bill. There is no proper way to know the consumer's maximum demand, usage details, losses in the lines, and power theft. To overcome all the difficulties present in the system we are introducing fully automated billing process. In the proposed system front end is user friendly and can be operated easily by having minimum computer knowledge. The billing process is prepaid energy billing, which could be titled. Pay first and then use it. There are clear results from many countries, where prepaid system has reduced the wastage by a large amount. Another advantage of the prepaid system is that the human errors made reading meters and processing bills can be reduced to a large extent.