Abstract
Since the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq is still suffering from the crisis and irregular in the processing of electric power to customers.Damage to the network, the old measurement devices for measuring electrical energy consumption, and irregularities and corruption in theprocess of measuring and calculating fees of the consumption, all these reasons led to the deterioration of the performance of thedistribution network in Iraq. In this paper, Wireless Electric Power Meter Based on XBee Module has been designed and implementedwhich ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) will be used for wireless electric power meter communication supported by PICmicrocontroller which used for power unit measurements. Wireless metering system will be controlled by central computer which place inbase station; also database will be design to record and manage all data and information of consumers.
Highlights
Increased importance of Smart Grid after 2005 [1,2,3,4], which include monitoring and control the consumption of customers of electric power [5]
ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) which represents by XBee kit will be used for wireless meter communication supported by PIC microcontroller which used for power unit measurements
The design and development of the wireless automatic smart power meter reading system described in this paper is based on the microcontroller and high performance, extremely low power consumption، high level of integration, and low price of ZigBee technology
Summary
Increased importance of Smart Grid after 2005 [1,2,3,4], which include monitoring and control the consumption of customers of electric power [5]. There are many methods for measuring electrical power at home are manual meter reading which is the oldest method and it is weak because it needs a large number of staff, low accuracy of readings, and difficult to monitor gauges that these devices vulnerable to abuses This method is still used in Iraq so far, IC card prepaid meter is used pay-before use it does not need employers to reading meters on site, but some problems exist in the actual operation process: IC card meter is damaged due to its direct contact with user and no real-time monitoring, Wire-line metering control system, the problem of measurements in real time has been solved, this type of meters has low measurements cost, but it has problems of long construction period, high installation cost and maintenance cost, expansion of the system upgrade and compatibility with other network [6], and ; Wireless meter reading system which is a process that the meter data is read and processed automatically via special equipment using wireless communication and computer network technology. This project, ZigBee wireless standard has been used for wireless network
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