A Novel IoT Based Smart Energy Meter with Backup Battery

Osman Yakubu,C Osei Adjei,C Narendra Babu

doi:10.47839/ijc.20.3.2281

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https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.20.3.2281

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Abstract

Energy consumption is currently on the ascendency due to increased demand by domestic and industrial consumers. The quest to ensure that consumers manage their consumption and the utility companies also monitor consumers to manage energy demand and production resulted in smart energy meters which are able to transmit data automatically at certain intervals being introduced. These Smart Meters are still fraught with challenges as consumers are unable to effectively monitor their consumption and the meters are also expensive to deploy. This research aims to present a novel IoT based Smart Energy Meter that will gather consumption data in real time and transmit it to a cloud data repository for storage and analysis. The novelty of this inexpensive system is the introduction of an ADM25SC Single Phase DIN-RAIL Watt-hour Energy Meter which sends power to the microcontroller and also the introduction of a backup battery that keeps the meter on for some time to transmit outage data during power outages. Data gathered from the proposed IoT based Smart Energy Meter for a period is compared against that of the same period from a Smart G meter, a widely used energy meter, and is found to be very close confirming the accuracy of the IoT based Smart Energy Meter.

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WORLD-wide energy demand is rapidly increasing due to rapid population growth, urbanisation, and industrial development
MATERIALS AND METHODS The design of the proposed Internet of Things (IoT) based Smart Energy Meter is done by interfacing an ADM25SC Single Phase DINRAIL Watt-hour Energy Meter to an Arduino Uno microcontroller
The ADM25SC Single Phase DIN-RAIL Watt-hour Energy is used because its power consumption is low, less than 1 watt, it has a single phase with a 240V reference voltage

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WORLD-wide energy demand is rapidly increasing due to rapid population growth, urbanisation, and industrial development. Energy meters used to be read manually and the data sent to the premises of the utility companies for manual entry to generate bills, smart meters have been developed and deployed in recent years to overcome this drawback. In the estimation of [1], smart meters are seen as an important component of the smart grid; it allows the service providers to interact with their consumers more effectively. They further posit that with the advent of smart meters, the total consumption of energy could be reduced even though demand is accelerating

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