Description

Smart Postpaid Electricity Meter Using Arduino

Manually dealing with electricity meters takes time because someone needs to access the postpaid electricity customer premises. Dealing with customers who fail to pay their electricity bills will be more complicated because specific action needs to be taken to cut off the power lines. A smart postpaid electricity meter is proposed in this research to overcome the above problems. This system is designed not only to record data of the amount of electricity usage but also to take action to cut off the electricity when the customer is in arrears. Arduino as a microcontroller is applied as the main control process. Internet of Things (IoT) technology is adopted to make the meter be controlled remotely through internet access. Required features and functionalities of the system are identified first before designing the system.Unit test followed by integration test will be conducted to measure whether iteration steps are required or not. 

This project work is developing a smart postpaid electricity meter that has the ability to record data on the amount of electricity consumption and send this data on request to the processing center for the electricity billing and payment process. The Internet of Things (IoT) technology is applied to this system that allows the center to have full control of the meter.

Hardware Tools:

• Arduino Uno

Software Tools:

• Arduino IDE