Abstract: In the modern era of technology electricity is the essential part of the daily life. For its proper utilization, it should be used very judiciously. But in India, The electricity supply scenario is totally different as in urban areas availability of electricity is surplus but in villages it is not possible because of policies in distribution and lack of exact requirement estimations.
Also the consumers are not satisfied from the electricity department for their services like errors in electricity bill, delay in bill generation etc. Thus to avoid human intervention for minimizing technical errors and to reduce human need at the same time GSM based AMR is the best solution to this.
In an electric power system there are three basic pillars generation, distribution and the metering system. Function of generation system is to generate electricity from thermal power, hydro power etc. Function of distribution system is to distribute the electricity in the network to end users. The function of the metering system is to measure the electricity consumption of the end users for billing.
Basic role of metering system is to measure the electricity usage of the end consumers, which must be accurate and reliable. The metering system is reliable only when the readings of electricity consumption at user end and the reading measured by the energy meter are same and accurate, for that efficiency of the metering system is totally based on the reliability of the meter reading.
Keywords: AMR, DTU, EPROM, ID, MCU, RS232.
Title: GSM based Automatic meter reading –A Review
Author: Pooja Verma, Prof Arvind Dhingra
International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Research
ISSN 2348-6988 (online)
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