A novel method for automatic electricity billing system using Ad-Hoc networks

The recent advancements in Ad-Hoc networks opens vast areas for automation, Electricity board billing system is one of lagging areas where there is need of automation, mostly meter's readings are taken using an employee working for electricity board, customarily a photograph of each meter is taken. To provide a possible solution on these issues is automation in meter reading collection process, so the readings are taken via micro-controller via event triggering. The bill will be prepared and notification is sent to customer via GSM. A customer can make a bill payment via an application. This more efficient and independent system will help to avoid the manual way of paying the bills, automation will establish transparency in billing system & also increase user awareness about consumption of electricity via an android application interface.