Real Time AMR & Control of Household Energy Meter with Zigbee Communication

In today´s world almost all industrial systems are based on wireless communication, as it has many advantages. This paper presents the design and implementation of Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Energy meter control using Zigbee communication. The design presents a novice method of combined Zigbee and Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) technology to monitor the power consumption and controlling of the meters remotely. This system avoids the human intervention in power management. If the consumer doesn´t pay the bill in time, the user is informed through sms system using GSM. If still user does not pay the bill then after the designed late consideration, the power connection will be disconnected from the remote server automatically. It displays the corresponding billing information on LCD and sends data to the server through the Zigbee Module. The entire programming is based on VB Language. The developed mechanism provides efficient monitoring of meter reading, power control mechanism, avoiding the billing error and reduces the maintenance cost.