Energy Meter Monitoring with Automatic Tariff Calculation

Abstract:

Energy meter monitoring with automatic tariff calculation is a project that can produce the output from energy meter to prepare a bill of electricity. Energy meter is a device that measure the amount of electric energy consumed. In Malaysia, the meter of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) travels for a long distance and take the reading manually to prepare the bill by visiting inside each of consumer house. This is high dependent on human forces. Sometimes the absence of consumer during billing process visiting make difficult to the meter reader to get the reader. Moreover many consumers are not satisfied with the estimate bills which are calculated based on average consumption. Soaring bill by estimate bills of electricity which consumer have to pay extra for the electricity billing. By using microcontroller and radio frequency transmitter for remote monitoring, the meter reader do not have to travel anymore. Global System for Mobile (GSM) uses to transmit and receive data from energy meter. The output which is calculated bill will be shown at Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) after apply the program coding in the microcontroller.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 793)
• Pages: 237-241
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.793.237
• Online since: September 2015
• Authors: Noor Anida*, A Amirah, Mardianaliza Othman, Noor Ashikin Mohd Razali, Fareq Malik, F.S. Abdullah, A. Yusof
• Keywords: Energy Meter, Global System for Mobile (GSM), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Short Message Service (SMS), Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)

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