Designing Prepaid Smart Energy Meter and Deployment in a Network

With the amount of electricity consumption rising day by day, the amount of electricity wasted is also rising. This paper aims to introduce a smart prepaid energy metering solution for big government or private institutes where there are many recreational centres like sports complex and hence considerable amount of energy wastage. In this system, an energy meter is installed in every sports complex and common area; and a server is maintained at the institute level. To facilitate bi-directional communication between the server and consumer's meter, data is transmitted over the power line using PowerLine modem or adapters. Energy consumption is calculated by using the “meter constant”, and this data is sent by meters to the server. Frequency of data sent by the meter is not fixed but is dependent on realtime load. Each of the meters will also send information regarding its health. Collected data will be compared with available balance; electricity will not be supplied in case of no available balance. The users can control the power supply remotely and hence stopping the unauthorised use of electricity. This system also helps in managing electricity during a power outage and in fault detection.