Automation of electricity billing process

Meter reading is done for the electricity, gas or water consumption where meter is used to record the consumption of this energy. Here we will focus more on electricity which is very essential in day to day life. In today's scenario area decided for the energy provider employee to take the meter reading in terms of snapshot of meter and submit these photos to the main office which are used to read the readings and accordingly bill is generated but in this whole process due to human intervention accuracy is not achieved. For this purpose AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) concept is developed in which automatic collection of readings, transmission and sending bill to customer is done easily. This technology mainly saves utility providers expense of periodic trips to each physical location to read a meter, so that efficiency, reliability and effectiveness increases. In this paper AMR is used efficiently as camera fixed in front of energy meter of each house will capture the image of meter when it gets command to capture and send this image to energy provider office wirelessly where it undergoes preprocessing and recognition of digits which are further used for generation of bill. This bill is again send to the respective meter owner as a massage using GSM module.