Design and Implementation of Smart Energy Billing System Based on RFID and Zigbee Technologies

Recently, the use of a smart energy billing system has been considered one of the most useful solutions to reduce the bills non-payment (BNP) problem, which represents one of the major issues of non-technical losses (NTL) in power systems. This paper aims to design and implement a smart energy prepaid billing system based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) represented by the Zigbee technology and the radio frequency identification (RFID) technique, as they are easy to use with low power consumption. The main contribution in this paper is enabling the server to collect the consumer’s kilowatt per hour (KWh) consumption wirelessly and informing the consumer with their meter balance without depending on telecommunication companies or the internet (as most previous researchers did). In order to verify the high accuracy of the proposed system, the obtaining results were compared with the standard energy meter. This work is implemented using simple, cheap components with a higher accuracy, security, and reliability in solving the BNP problem.