Talking Energy Meter

The idea behind this paper is to develop an energy meter that will be useful for the blinds and for the people who cannot concentrate on energy meter readings due to their busy schedule. A device is built that can display power consumption and total cost of every month. This setup helps the consumers by letting them know about the peak loads (maximum energy consumption), energy consumed, billing status etc. The voice alerts are in English language. The typical voice alerts are “Usage over load”, “Pay electricity bill”, etc. It mainly consists of a microcontroller, GSM modem and Text-to-Speech module. The energy meter readings are being sent to microcontroller and further based on calculations, audio and visual alerts are generated The meter readings are continuously stored in permanent memory. Moreover, it can send cost and usage information to consumers through GSM modem.