Wireless Energy Meter Reading System

This technology mainly saves utility providers the expense of periodic trips to each physical location to read a meter.

Wireless energy meter reading system.

Wireless automatic meter reading is commonly used when your utility meters are read without any user intervention. Abdul rahim presented a paper titled automated wireless meter reading system for monitoring. It saves huge human labor. A gsm modem is connected to the energy meter.

Although commercial buildings spend over 120 billion dollars annually on electricity much of that energy is not measured or managed. This projects is based on gsm used for remote monitoring and load control of energy meter. Automatic meter reading amr is the technology of automatically collecting consumption diagnostic and status data from water meter or energy metering devices gas electric and transferring that data to a central database for billing troubleshooting and analyzing. Building energy management system bems wireless fleet management system.

2 in the year of june 2012 the authors o. Automatic power meter reading gapmrr system is presented in this paper. Meter reading today and tomorrowatmos energy manually reads and records customer meter readings in a hand held device each month in some of our communities. However many of our customers now have wireless meter devices which allow the meter to be read electronically.

This system consists of gsm digital power meter installed in every consumer unit. Automatic meter reading amr system continuously monitors the energy meter sends data on request of service provider through sms. User can get the readings of the energy meter of consumers via sms. Wireless meter reading technology is safe reliable and has been used by natural gas utility companies for years.

Each modem will be having its own sim the sim card used is implemented in energy meter and it sends a message to the. They are currently installed in parts of louisiana texas mississippi tennessee kentucky kansas and for. The electricity consumption meter shown in the figure facilitates the billing of energy meter along with load control using wireless gsm technology this is a microcontroller based wireless energy meter as 8051 microcontroller is used for controlling the entire system. This data is fed back into the utilities database to generate the consumption data.