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Automatic Meter Reading with Instant Billing and Payment using Android Application

Author(s):

Avani N. Chaudhari , SVIT; Saurabh M. Patel, SVIT

Keywords:

MSP430FR4133, Energy meter, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Zigbee, Wi-Fi module, Android, Billing automation, database MySQL

Abstract

Every end of the month electricity consumed by us is read to the energy meter by Electricity Board person. That person is calculate the bill according to the current rate of electricity and handover the bills to the owner of that house. This is known as meter reading. MSP430fr4133 controller is counts the pulse and calculating the units manually for meter reading. Automatic meter reading is the technology of collecting data automatically from energy meter and transferring the data to a central database in electricity office for billing and/or analysing. The transmitter side circuit is connected to the electronic meter which counts the pulse from it and displays it over the segment LCD display. The transmitter circuits containing a Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) for data transforming without losing the data and also containing the Wi-Fi modem for data transforming in a long distance in real time, this transforms the meter reading through Mobile Application and Web Server, for front end designing php script, Java and MySQL is used. User friendly and the employees can work easily on this software with minimum knowledge of computers. The customers can also know easily his/her bills and units (kWh) consumed by them in real time without knowledge of any software. Employees can read the meter by sitting in the office.

Other Details

Paper ID: IJSRDV4I41093
Published in: Volume : 4, Issue : 4
Publication Date: 01/07/2016
Page(s): 1260-1264

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