Automatic Meter Reading System using CAN bus and Zigbee

Abstract

With the rapid development of automation and measuring techniques, automatic recording of the data in the meter reading instrument has gradually become the target of people whose working, living, and home conditions are of increasingly high level of intelligence. Meanwhile, utilities also hope that the development of new technologies to solve the problems they encountered in the practical work about cumbersome meter reading and no reliable protection of accuracy and real time; and enable both user friendly and improving public sector efficiency and management level. Existing wire-line meter reading system has a large number of risks. Wires are more complex, detrimental to adjustment and maintenance of the system. The long-term indoor and outdoor installation easily leads to aging, resulting in a risk of short circuit and breakage. For these reasons, it has become the industry very unresolved problem to design a remote meter reading system, with long-term reliance and convenient installation & maintenance, which not only read data automatically but also monitor operation status. In this Paper we propose an automatic meter reading system which uses CAN Bus and Zigbee Technology to deliver the power consumption details to the sub station.