Open AccessAutomated Real-Time Electricity Supply Monitoring System
Author(s) -
Otuekong E. Ekong,
AUTHOR_ID,
Anthony U. Etim,
Anietie P. Ekong
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v27p2
Subject(s) - electricity , computer science , automatic meter reading , bluetooth , microcontroller , embedded system , mains electricity , electricity meter , arduino , python (programming language) , real time computing , mqtt , android (operating system) , metre , database , telecommunications , operating system , wireless , engineering , electrical engineering , internet of things , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , voltage , astronomy
In many developing countries, several homes are yet to be fitted with the traditional electro-mechanical meter or newer smart meter for measuring electricity consumption. As such, distribution network operators resort to estimated billing. This work proposes a low cost and easy-to-install alternative capable of monitoring the duration of supply which can be used as the basis to generate bills for unmetered customers. The Recursive Waterfall model guided its design and implementation. The system comprises of Electricity Supply Monitoring (ESM) Hub and ESM App. The Hub is the sensing unit and is designed using ATmega328 microcontroller on Arduino Uno board together with HC-05 Bluetooth module for communication. The App is the display/storage unit and comes with two variants: ESM Mobile App developed using Python and ESM Desktop App developed using C#. Results show the system is capable of providing timely feedback for consumers and real-time transparency for electricity supply industry stakeholders. Keywords: Energy consumption, energy informatics, meter reading, power measurement, smart meters.