An IoT Based Smart Energy Management System

Abstract

Physical energy meter reading is an outdated concept, it is inefficient, prone to errors and leads to a lot of wastage of manpower and is a burden on the consumers since the energy companies pass on the cost of physically reading the meters to the consumers. Smart energy meters solve the above-mentioned problems to a great extent but replacing the older energy meters is a very expensive and a humongous task. This paper introduces an IoT based smart energy meter using the raspberry pi devices as a solution to the aforementioned issue. A small modification to the already installed old meters can make them act as prepaid smart meters. So, the need to replace the old energy meter does not arise. These meters can be easily accessed through customized web pages, smart mobile applications and relevant notifications can be sent to the customers using SMS service. These meters can be turned ON and OFF automatically once a user exhausts its prepaid threshold value or through the smart App. Consumers are notified through SMS when the threshold set value is about to breach.