Enhanced digital energy meter

摘要

The enhanced energy meter is a new kind of electricity measurement meter that can automatically send meter datum to our energy supplier. This ensures more accurate energy bills. The demand for energy consumption is increasing due to the growth of population and industrial development. The need to improve the energy efficiency and to provide accurate revenue to the supplier arouses the necessity of automated meters. The consumers need to be more aware of their energy consumption and the supplier need to have proper balance between energy supplied and revenue received. The enhanced digital energy meters collect detailed consumption datum of a consumer easily than the traditional metering method because of the high cost of the data logging systems in the latter. In recent days, alternative source of energy are being practiced in individual premises. Hence, the proposed energy meter will have a constant monitoring of supply from both the sources. The collected information will be sent to the supplier and the consumer in an automated manner. GSM and IoT provide wireless two way communication between distribution centers and energy consumers. The added advantage of the enhanced digital energy meter is that it would eliminate the manual operations. A relay driver has been added in order to trip the supply upon the input command, thus it prevents the human interruptions. The entire concept can be incorporated into a single unit, thus it facilitates the ease of use.