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. Nowadays people face many problems like power theft. Power theft may be a measure crime and it also directly affects the economy of our country. This system will find energy theft easily and send the notification to the user. The energy meters are connected to the PIC Microcontroller through an optocoupler. The optocoupler sensor gives an interrupt each time the meter LED ashes to the programmed microcontroller and microcontroller process this data to the ESP8266 WI-FI module then WI-FI module sends this data to the blynk app. This system monitors the kWh readings and billing on LCD and also send this data into the blynk app. This design eliminates the human involvement in electricity maintenance. In this system, a microcontroller is interfaced with an energy metering circuit, current sensing circuit, WI-FI communication and a contactor to make or break power line. In this project we are connecting loads through relays and CT. User can check the energy meter readings into the blynkapp using mobile and isolate the power supply through electromagnetic relay. Here relay works as switch to on/off the power supply which is connected to the load. The main controlling device of the project is PIC Microcontroller which is programmed by Embedded C language.

 

 Objectives:

• The best remedy for this is not the increase in energy production, but the effective use of available energy. By properly monitoring our energy consumption and avoiding energy wastage, energy crisis can be reduced to a certain extent.
• Consumer can monitor their energy consumption, billing into the blynk app so user can access this data from anywhere on the world.
• Energy meter controlling.
• Relay can isolate the circuit.
• Visible alerts using LCD display.
• To turn on and off the load using relay switch.
• To achieve this task using PIC microcontroller.

Components used:

• Power supply.
• PIC Microcontroller.
• Load.
• Energy Meter
• Optocouplers.
• WI-FI module.
• LCD display.
• Relay.
• Blynk app.

Software’s used:

1. PIC-C compiler for Embedded C programming.
2. PIC kit 2 programmer for dumping code into Micro controller.
3. Express SCH for Circuit design.
4. Proteus for hardware simulation.

   

   

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