Energy crisis is one of the major problems that the world faces today. The energy crisis can be reduced to a certain extent by properly monitoring our energy consumption and avoiding energy wastage. This system will be monitoring the input in KWH and generated bill will send to the user mobile in the form of SMS through GSM. The energy meters are connected to the Arduino UNO through an optocoupler. The optocoupler sensor gives an interrupt each time the meter LED ashes to the programmed Arduino and Arduino will calculate the bill based on KWH readings and sending this bill to the predefine mobile number through GSM. Based ON the generated bill user will control the load through SMS using GSM. In this system, an Arduino is interfaced with an energy metering, GSM and Relay. In this project we are connecting loads through relay and CT. Here relay works as switch to on/off the power supply which is connected to the load according to the signal received by the microcontroller. The main controlling device of the project is Arduino which is programmed by Embedded C language.

 

Components used:  

• Power supply
• Arduino UNO.
• Loads.
• Energy Meter.
• Optocoupler.
• GSM module.
• Relay.

  Software’s used:

1. Arduino IDE Studio compiler for dumping code.
2. Embedded C programming.
3. Express SCH for Circuit design.

 

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