“Design of Prepaid Electricity Billing System using Arduino”

Abstract: Energy Meters in India have dominantly been electrochemical in nature but are gradually being replaced by more sophisticated and accurate digital and electronic meters. A high percentage of electricity revenue is lost to power theft, incorrect meter reading and billing, and reluctance of consumers towards paying electricity bills on time. Considerable amount of revenue losses can be reduced by using Prepaid Energy Meters. A Prepaid energy meter enables power utilities to collect energy bills from the consumers prior to the usage of power by delivering only as much as what has been paid for. The proposed prepaid meter is implemented in a software model and MATLAB has been used for simulation.

Keywords: MATLAB, Arduino, energy meters