A NOVEL APPROACH ON ELECTRICITY BILLING AND FAULT NOTIFICATION

The present systems of energy billing are error prone, time and labor consuming. The Service Provider for energy uses conventional method for calculating the energy consumed by individual consumer. Now-a-days, automation finds importance in every field. So, E-metering (Electronic Metering) has gone through rapid technological advancements and there is increased demand for an efficient and reliable Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system. This paper presents a fully automated energy meter. To keep pace with increased necessity of advanced metering infrastructure and near real time, a two way data communication technique between the power distribution company (Electricity Board) and the consumer is used. The proposed system uses PIC16F877A microcontroller. A New interactive user friendly GUI is developed using Microsoft visual studio .NET framework and C #.