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