This paper explores the design and assemble of smart card prepaid. The front end of this project is user friendly and the employees can work on with minimum knowledge of computers. This article examines the effect of one such innovative approach to energy savings in bogor, indonesia. Prepaid energy meter for billing system using microcontroller and. Capacity or demand is in kva apparent power or kw terms.
Prepaid energy meter for billing system using microcontroller and recharge card sapna ganurkar, pravesh gour abstract in this paper, the idea of a prepaid energy meter using an at89s52 microcontroller has been introduced. This paper present a proposed design of a 230v40a single phase digital prepaid energy meter which consists of an energy metering devise and a prepaid module that is used for billing and recharging. The present electricity billing system is manual method. Electronic meters need for prepaid energy meter system. Sales made on credit exposes the business to credit risk and attract additional collection costs which may as well be eliminated if prepaid billing system was used. In this system using gsm module to recharge the account. Effect of prepaid electricity billing on revenue collection. The concept is becoming so popular because it has so many advantages. Article pdf available january 2012 with 3,740 reads how we measure reads a read is counted each time someone views a. But, customer complaints began to increase due to unavailability of electricity and other problems. Another paper suggests prepaid energy mater using a microcontroller from microchip technology inc pic family, used due to low cost of microcontrollers4. Thus, this is all about controlling of electricity theft, using smart prepaid energy meter.
Apart from making readings using gsm communication, billing system is needed to be made prepaid to avoid unnecessary usage of power. It is a software which helps the user to work with the billing cycles, paying bills, managing different departments under which employees are working etc. It also consists of a gsm modem that allows the operator to recharge the meter remotely using am sms message. An assessment of the effect of prepaid service transition in. Index terms mobile based billing, meter reading, electricity billing i. This project results an approach to automate the electricity billing system. The prepaid card is recharged for a certain amount and can be fed as input to the microcontroller at89s52. Ic card is the medium between prepaid meter and energy sale management system. Sms based recharge protocol for prepaid energy billing system. Generally in nigeria, electricity customers face a lot. Fawzi alnaina and bahaa jalil8,built a prototyping prepaid electricity meter system based on rfid. International journal of core engineering and management ijcem 1. Prepaymentprepaid energy meter introduction and working.
An on chip design for prepaid electricity billing system international journal of scientific engineering and technology research volume. For comprehensive information about how prepaid electricity works, and inclining block tariffs, please view the dedicated site on prepayment electricity. Design and assemble of low cost prepaid smart card energy. Stss prepaid minimises the possibility of escalating electricity costs impacting on essential complex funds. These problems can be fixed by using a prepaid electricity billing system. Prepaid smart meter energy management system using arduino microcontroller with labview g. Electricity billing by prepaid system using gsm technology. Adoption of prepaid electricity metering system and customer. Governments are increasingly seeking lowcost ways to curb residential energy use. The conventional method of electricity billing involves a person from the distribution unit reading the number of units of electricity consumed in the energy meter, conveying this information to the distribution unit, and then preparing the bill according to the units consumed for a fixed amount of time. Amit jain 7, proposed a prepaid meter using mobilecommunication in2011. The study concluded that customers have embraced the prepaid billing system.
Electricity users can buy specific amount of energy to use it only when they needed. A prepaid energy metering system enables power utilities to collect energy bills from the consumers prior to the usage of power by delivering only as much as what has been paid for. Customers, according to their demand, purchase a certain quantity of energy from the local electric power company. The standard model for recovering the costs of electricity provision is a postpaid metering system in which a customer receives a bill for consumption over the. System specification algorithmic level first step of design process is to lay down the specification of the system.
If this system comes in our day to day life it will be useful for both the government and the public. The billing process of electricity consumption which we are using at present is very long process and requires lot of man power. Controlling of electricity theft using smart prepaid energy meter. In temporary billing system customer requests for the electric connection for limited number of days and. An on chip design for prepaid electricity billing system. In another system, the water system is implemented in such a way that the. To find out more about the easypay outlets selling prepaid electricity, please browse the options on the left. Pdf gsm based prepaid electricity system with theft. This concept provides a cost efficient manner of electricity billing. This study sought to establish whether this system affected revenue collection costs for kenya power. In this paper, the idea of a prepaid energy meter using an at89s52 microcontroller has been introduced. Introduction he current procedure with regard to the billing process for electricity is not a fully automated system. Pdf hdl implementation of prepaid electricity billing machine on.
Prepaid electricity billing meter project nevon projects. Minimizing household electricity theft in nigeria using gsm. The prepaid system can be made for the water as well for gas and electricity. Prepaid energy meter for billing system using microcontroller. Polyphase prepaid energy metering system has also been proposed and developed based on local prepayment and card reader 3. The project electricity billing system is an application to automate the process of ordering and calculating the electricity bill with all the charges and penalty for a consumer who has been given connection of electricity. The smart card has been used for the storage of the prepaid data which is secure 1 2. Electricity bill management system for final year php, java. In this, the consumers can use even their cell phone to recharge the system.
Pdf sms based recharge protocol for prepaid energy billing. The second tier within the utility system prepaid metering or ami infrastructure, is the data collector. Thissystem is divided into two part such as client and server. The first phase for our billed customers went live in november 2002. Consumers have to spend time and energy standing in queues to make bill payments. Adoption of prepaid electricity metering system and customer satisfaction in nairobi county, kenya angelina m. One of the prime reasons is the traditional billing one of the prime reasons is the traditional billing system which is inaccurate, slow, costly, and lack in flexibility as well as reliability.
The present project prepaid energy meter for india incorporates these features to address the problems faced by both the consumers and the distribution companies. A unique system developed specifically to meet the needs of sectional title complexes. Pdf this work presents a university community based electricity prepaid billing system. On the other hand, suppliers of meters were emphasising the attractive benefits of installing such prepaid meters in homes. Smart energy meter based, prepaid electricity distribution system. After the prepaid amount of electricity is consumed, electricity is automatically disconnected unless the customer makes a further prepayment. The system first accepts account recharge and allows to use only limited units of energy as per recharge and then cuts off the supply. Prepaid billing system is a system where a service or a good is consumed after paying for it. New prepaid energy meter for billing system using recharge card. Design and development of prepaid electricity billing using. So here we are introducing a prepaid electricity billing using gsm technology.
The services like electricity, gas, water telephone etc are now days get privatized. A gsmbased energy recharge interface which contains a prepaid card equivalent to a mobile sim card. Consequently, there are certain costs that may be avoided for billing in advance a given service or good. The system can be scaled to suit most requirements, from a walk by drive by, to a fully. The system protocol is based on a highly reliable radio link. Table 1 shows a comparison between creditbased system and the prepaid metering system 8. This could be achieved by the use of suitable processor and the interface to that processor. The prepaid electricity billing meter could be widely used to provide a new more customized electricity billing system, where users may recharge when they intend to use that facility. The remedy for this drawback is a prepaid energy billing. Building a prototype prepaid electricity metering system. Another advantage of the prepaid system is that the human errors made reading meters and processing bills can be reduced to a large extent.
It involves manual processes from the time the meter reader starts reading the meter until the system is updated with the current reading. On the one hand, those that support the diffusion of prepaid meters claim that they benefit both consumers and utilities because they help users to consume more efficiently and to improve the management of. A prepaid energy meter using gprsgsm technology for improved. A smart card based prepaid electricity system the purpose of this project is to design and develop an intelligent energy metering system that can efficiently control the amount of electricity consumed by the user. Introduction a consumer is a very important person in any organization. Management system with kindly manmachine interface, is easy to collect, analyze and store data. This paper introduces prepaid electricity system for overcome the problem of overbilling, meter tempering and to ensure a cost effective operation. The project also aims at proposing a system that will reduce the loss of power and revenue. The second phase, to incorporate our prepaid customers went live on 8 july 2003. Prepaid energy meter with gsm technology open access journals. It will also look at prepaid utility service in the context of liheap. In this system he used controller unite, prepaid card and communication module. Thus the system avoids the irregularities connected with the traditional billing system and guarantee revenue collection.
At first electricity customers were enthusiastic about this innovation. The concept of prepaid is one of the emerging fields for the paid service providers. Using the electromechanical meters for the traditional mode of billing and payment is quite inefficient and this triggered the development of prepaid and smart. To automate the system of billing of energy is the main theme of this project. This puts forward an innovative electricity billing and use as needed electricity usage scheme. Prepaid smart meter energy management system using arduino. Introduction meters in the past and today in a few countries, were electromechanical devices with poor accuracy and lack of configurability. Wireless intelligent electricity metering and billing system core. The modules of this system designed in vhdl language.
A scheme of electricity billing system called prepaid energy meter with tariff indicator can facilitate in improved cash flow management in energy utilities and can reduces problem associated with billing consumer living in isolated area and reduces deployment of manpower for taking meter readings. The aim of the project is to minimize the queue at the electricity billing counters and to restrict. Pdf development of prepaid electricity payment system for a. It also eliminates the need for manual electricity meter reading. There are clear results from many countries, where prepaid system has reduced the revenue loss by a large amount. The effect of prepaid electricity system on household energy. K, mareena john department of instrumentation and control engineering psg college of technology peelamedu, coimbatore, india abstract the usage of electricity automatically, if the bill is not paid. The stss prepaid electricity solution facilitates the collection of electricity funds from individual residents. In this project, the present billing system was eliminated completely and a new system namely prepaid billing system was introduced for embedded applications which overcomes the drawbacks in present billing system.
The general objective of the study was to find out the relationship between adoption of prepaid electricity metering system. Prepaid electricity plan and electricity consumption behavior 1. The entity of the top module is given as figure 1 entity prepaid is. Prepaid energy meter for billing system using microcontroller and recharge card. Adoption of the prepaid electricity meter billing system by. Keywords electricity theft, gsm networks, prepaid meter, short message service and revenue generation. Thus, a prepaid energy meter was introduced for embedded applications which enables power utilities to collect electricity bills from the consumers prior to its. Akanksha shukla, shobhit saxena, siddhant singh and sohil jain. After all the hard work is done for electricity bill management system is here. The at89s52 is programmed such that power supply will be switched off by using relay when the recharged. And also we are having prepaid recharge coupons to recharge their account. The use of prepaid energy meter is still controversial. The present billing system is minimally able to detect power theft and even when it does.
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