Automatic Electronic Meter

Reading System Using GSM

Presented By :

K.Kishore Kumar
M.Asha Jyothi
N.Lakshmi Devi Bai
P.V.S.R.Bharadwaja

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Scope of the Project

Domain of the project : Embedded Systems

Automatically read the meter reading
Reduce the human effort
Increase the accuracy

Conventional Electric Meter

Block diagram Tx

GMPR Section-2

OptoCoupler
Electric circuit that
transfers electricity
between two other
parts without allowing
them to make a direct
connection.
OptoCouplers are
most often used to
separate two circuit
elements that are
operating on extremely
different voltages

Relay
Advantages of relays:
Relays can switch AC
and DC, transistors can
only switch DC.
Relays can switch high
voltages, transistors
cannot.
Relays are a better
choice for switching large
currents (> 5A).
Relays can switch many
contacts at once.

Disadvantages of relays:
Relays are bulkier than transistors for switching small
currents.
Relays cannot switch rapidly (except reed relays),
transistors can switch many times per second.
Relays use more power due to the current flowing
through their coil.
Relays require more current than many chips can
provide, so a low power transistor may be needed to
switch the current for the relay's coil.

EEPROM
It is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers
store small amounts of data that must be saved when power is
removed.
EEPROMs are realized as arrays of floating gate transistors.
Main categories of these interface types are:
Serial bus
SPI,I2C
Parallel bus

Keypad
There are basically two types of Keypads
Matrix Keypad
Linear Keypad

Power Supply

LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)

Lcd interfacing to the controller

GSM (Global System for Mobile)

900MHz or 1800MHz

Characteristics of GSM Standard

Fully digital system using 900,1800 MHz frequency
band.

TDMA over radio carriers(200 KHz carrier spacing).

8 full rate or 16 half rate TDMA channels per carrier.
User/terminal authentication for fraud control.
Encryption of speech and data transmission over the radio
path.
Full international roaming capability.
Compatibility with ISDN.
Support of Short Message Service (SMS).

GSM Applications
Mobile telephony
GSM-R
Telemetry System
- Fleet management
- Automatic meter reading
- Toll Collection
- Remote control and fault reporting of DG sets
Value Added Services

Intro. to ARM 7--LPC2148

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer(RISC) instruction set
architecture(ISA) developed by ARM Holdings
The relative simplicity of ARM processors makes them suitable for low
power applications
8-40Kb of on-chip static ram
32-512Kb of on-chip flash memory
In System / In- application Programming via boot loader software
2 ADCs containing 14channels
In-built RTC
2 UARTs UART0 and UART 1
Power down mode / Power saving
8 Kb on-chip ram accessible to USB by DMA

Applications
Industrial control
Medical systems
Access control
Point-of-sale
Communication gateway
Embedded soft modem
General purpose applications

Advantages
Smart automated processes instead of manual work
Accurate information from the network load to optimise maintenance
and investments
Customized rates and billing dates.
Detection of tampering of Meters.
Accurate measurement of transmission losses.
Better network performance and cost efficiency.
Demand and distribution management.
More intelligence to business planning.
Better company credibility.

Working of the project

In this project we required operating voltage for ARM controller board is 12V.
Hence the 12V D.C. power supply is needed for the ARM board . This regulated
12V is generated by stepping down the voltage from 230V to 18V now the step
downed a.c voltage is being rectified by the Bridge Rectifier using 1N4007
diodes. The rectified a.c voltage is now filtered using a C filter. Now the
rectified, filtered D.C. voltage is fed to the Voltage Regulator. This voltage
regulator provides/allows us to have a Regulated constant Voltage which is of
+12V. The rectified; filtered and regulated voltage is again filtered for ripples
using an electrolytic capacitor 100F. Now the output from this section is fed to
microcontroller board to supply operating voltage.
In this project we have two sections , one section is in house and another
section is in electricity board . In first section we are counting the units by using
Digital energy meter and we are storing that data in eeprom (external memory
).when ever the request is received through gsm modem then we are sending the
sms(units) to the another section .
In second section we are using the RTC , hourly once we
are sending the request to the first section. After receiving the units calculate
the amount and send a sms the consumer.

Conclusion
Integrating features of all the hardware
components used have been developed in it.
Presence of every module has been reasoned
out and placed carefully, thus contributing to
the best working of the unit.
Secondly, using highly advanced ICs with
the help of growing technology, the project
has been successfully implemented. Thus the
project has been successfully designed and
tested.

Future Enhancement
This project can be extended by using GPRS
and 3G technologies. Through GPRS, we can
monitor the house from anywhere in the
world and 3G technologies can be used to
view the person through video calling option.
Also introducing CDMA technologies into the
project might be helpful which can prevent
the tampering of the SIM cards.