A Survey Paper on Prepaid Electricity Distribution System

ABSTRACT The electricity energy saving scheme is used in business, agriculture, domestic and general purpose. The problem occurs in postpaid scheme is, there is no control of use of electricity from the consumer side and the problem of collection of meter reading and also in generating the bill. In this project technique used for prepaid scheme using smart meter included the embedded system and GSM for sending and receiving the SMS through GSM network. Smart meter is a meter which is attached with the existing meter in embedded system which helps the consumer to send a SMS for their day to day power consumption. The aim of this project is to control the consumption of electricity in consumer side. Establish a communication network between the consumer and service provider using GSM. Service provider verify the meter id and card number and accept the request and recharge the meter. The aim of this project is to minimize the queue at the electricity billing counters and to retrieve the electricity automatically. The project also aims at proposing a system that will reduce the loss of power and revenue due to power theft and other illegal activities. The automated billing system will keep doing of real time consumption and will leave little scope for disagreement on consumption and billing. The project also addresses about various debugging tools such as Keil 4 Vision. Smart meter enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. Smart meters are also believed to be a less costly alternative to traditional time of uses meter and are intended to be used on a wide scale with all customer classes.