2017 Third International Conference on Science Technology Engineering & Management (ICONSTEM)

Advance Metering Infrastructure for Smart Grid

using GSM
Kavithakumari K.S Pravina Paul P CatherineAmalaPriya E
Assitant Professor, Dept of EEE Assitant Professor, Dept of EEE Assitant Professor, Dept of EEE
Jeppiaar Engineering College Jeppiaar Engineering College Jeppiaar Engineering College
kavitha_eee2005@yahoo.co.in smppravi@gmail.com rahulcathy@gmail.com

Abstract—In with the proliferation of smart grid research, the survey and variety of malicious theft generated and theft the
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has turn into the energy power. These are main disadvantages in the existing
initial ever-present and permanent platform for performing system, so we are going to solve the problem in our
computational operations. On the other hand, due to the proposed system
restricted uniqueness of AMI, such as difficult network
structure, data with privacy sensitivity and smart meter with II. LITERATURE REVIEW
resource constrained mechanism it is an particularly
Rong Jiang, Rongxinglu, et alThe power grid has
challenging issue for the AMI security. Power theft is one of the
most significant concerns connected to the implementation become a necessity in the modern society. Without a stable
strategy of smart grid .The utility companies lose more than and reliable power grid, tens of millions of people’s daily
$15 billion every year due to power theft around the world life will be degraded dramatically. For instance, the India
based on the estimation data gathered. To address this blackout in July 2012 affected more than 60 million people
challenge, in this paper, we talk about the background of AMI (about 9% of the world population) and plunged 20 of
and identify major security requirements that AMI should Indian 28 states into darkness. Indeed, the traditional power
meet. Specifically, an attack tree based threat model is first grid, which is surprisingly still grounded on the design more
offered to demonstrate the power-theft behaviors in AMI. than 100 years ago, can no longer be suitable for today’s
Then, we summarize the current AMI power-theft detection society. With the development of information system and
schemes into three categories, i.e., classification-based, state communication technology, many countries have been
estimation-based and game theory-based ones, and make wide- modernizing the aging power system into smart grid, which
ranging comparisons and discussions on them. In order to is featured with twoway transmission, high reliability, real-
provide a deep understanding of security vulnerabilities and time demand response, self-healing, and security. Within
solutions in AMI and shed light on future research directions. smart grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) gives a
The Household data automatically reading is important in the imperative role which is very closely related with day today
process of power system information. It is also an urgent life of people life. AMI performs advanced functionality in
problem that power industries want to solve because the
the metering system of electricity by utilizing smart meters
exactness and real time of meter data copy have an effect on
instead of using old mechanical meters. This mechanism
the power system information level, management decisions,
and economic benefits. Recently there have been numerous provide two-way communications between energy
reports concerning the automatic energy meter reading. consumers and utility companies.With the AMI, people can
not only read the meter data remotely, but also do some
customized control and implement ¿ne-coarse demand
Keywords—Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Smart grid, response. In 2009, the FBI reported a wide and organized
GSM energy-theft attempt that may have cost up to 400 million
dollars annually to a utility following an AMI deployment.
I.INTRODUCTION In Canada, BC Hydro reports $100 million in losses every
year. There are many losses around $4.5 billion and $5
The existing system has, manual meter reading billion in the various utility companies located around in
systems using electro-mechanical meters are installed within Brazil and India happens due to the theft done in electricity.
the premises of residential or commercial consumers and There is even a video which shows how to crack the meter
data on information consumption are collected on a monthly and cut the electricity bill in half in Youtube.As a result,
basis. Manpower must be hire to go from domestic after energy-theft matters turn into one of the the majority
domestic to read energy consumption, record data and significant concern which exclude the growth of AMI.The
communicate with a receiving module. Use of manual exclusive dispute for theft of energy in AMI calls for the
meters may possibly convert to meter reading mistakes and improvement of successful detection method. Sudhish N
errors of leakage. And there is main factors is vehicle theft, George, Ashna. k existing meter interpretation system in
yearly 60% of energy theft in India according to the recent India are investigated and conducted an widespread reading

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on various recently available energy measuring instruments. 2.2.Objective

In the available existing procedures moreover an electro-
mechanical meter or electronic energy meter is fixed for The main objectives of proposed system is to minimize
usage measurement in the premise. For the mechanism of the over load appliances when prepaid amount balance is too
Automatic Meter Reading various research groups has low. We use a GSM modem to control the ON/OFF section
proposed systems built on a variety of platforms have been of the transformer. To perform a automatic billing system
planned all over the world. which reduces the energy theft before using EB meter. We
set a alarm in the EB meter when there is low balance. The
Wireless and wire based are the various types of rest of the paper is organized as proposed system,
AMR systems. Telephone Line Network (optical/ cable) and
Simulation results and conclusion.
Power Line Carrier (PLC) are wire-based AMR system and
a number of associated mechanism are offered.Newly
proposed e-metering systems are based on Bluetooth, GPRS,
GSM are available .Design of an Electric Energy Meter for III.PROPOSED SYSTEM
long-distance data information transfers which based upon
GPRS is proposed. These techniques can’t be put into In the proposed system AT89C51 microcontroller is used
operation so without difficulty since the ordinary utilization for the competent energy meter system with monitoring
of GPRS is still a dream to the common people. A more facility. The AT89C51 is a low-power, high-performance
reliable and user friendly system with web portal for CMOS 8-bit microcontroller which has Flash memory with
multiple access using the advanced Visual studio .net in-system programmable facility with 8K bytes. The
frame work is created in this proposed work which will information transfer operation is carried with 8 bit bi-
manage the data efficiently even if there is loss of SMS. It directional ports. The device is feigned by means of Atmel’s
formulate the design dissimilar to the earlier proposals.A high-density non-volatile memory technique and is well-
master PC at the control centre was used to send instructions suited with the Industry standard 8051instruction set and pin
to a distant meter, which in turn transmitted data back, by out operation is performed. This system is connected with
means of the Power Line Communication (PLC) the energy meter with load. The readings of the energy
procedure. These strategy were primarily put into practice in meter are counted with help of IR receiver. The value given
areas that had a permanent telephone network. Bluetooth as output from the IR receiver will be given to the
energy meters were manufactured and put into practice in microcontroller. Command to the GSM modem will be send
some areas where a number of meters in close proximity, if recharge operation will be performed by the user. If the
communicated wirelessly with a Master PC. amount is too low then the system will send the alert
message to the user mobile number via GSM modem and
through the buzzer. The status will be put on show in LCD
2.1.Existing System which is interfaced with the microcontroller. In case any
The existing system has, manual meter reading systems error in the home sections the employee can turn off and
using electro-mechanical meters are installed within the turn on the transformer using the GSM MODEM. There are
premises of residential or commercial consumers and data two sections available in this section: (a) Home Section, (b)
on information consumption are collected on a monthly Transformer Section. We can give the 230V AC supply to
basis. The following Fig.1. explains about the general block the principal transformer then the same supply given to the
diagram used in existing system. secondary transformer. Then the 230V supply is stepped
down to 12V supply which is given to the driver circuit. We
can give the home section prepaid balance as Rs50 which is
consider as 50 units. Then after recharge we can use the
8051
power supply for home appliances. It will be noted by the
energy meter. This system used to online EB billing when
balance is too low. This system used for home automation to
turning ON/OFF the electrical appliances by using the GSM.
Overloaded electrical appliances can be automatically turn
ON/OFF .Getting the buzzer sound when prepaid balance is
too. when any fault in the supply line from the transformer
we can manually turn ON/OFF the transformer by using
GSM.
Manpower must be hired to go from household after
household to read energy consumption, record data and
communicate with a receiving module. Use of manual
meters could translate to meter reading mistakes and errors
Fig.1 General block diagram of leakage. And there is main factors is vehicle theft, nearly

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60% of energy theft in India according to the recent survey

and variety of malicious theft generated and theft the energy
power. These are main disadvantages in the existing system,
so we are going to solve the problem in our proposed
system.The following Fig.2 explains the proposed system
block diagram.

Fig.4 PCB Layout of Transformer Section

This system used to online EB billing when balance is too

low. This system used for home automation to turning
ON/OFF the electrical appliances by using the GSM.
Fig.2 Proposed block diagram Overloaded electrical appliances can be automatically turn
PCB layout is used both in home section and ON/OFF .Getting the buzzer sound when prepaid balance is
Transformer section. The following Fig.3 explains about the too.when any fault in the supply line from the transformer
PCB layout of Home section. we can manually turn ON/OFF the transformer by using
GSM. The existing system has, manual meter reading
systems using electro-mechanical meters are installed within
the premises of residential or commercial consumers and
data on information consumption are collected on a monthly
basis.
These are main disadvantages in the existing system, so
we are going to solve the problem in our proposed system..
If the user wants to recharge the system he has to send the
command to the GSM modem. If the amount is too low then
the system will send the alert message to the user mobile
number via GSM modem and through the buzzer. The status
will be displayed in LCD which is interfaced with the
microcontroller. In case any fault in the home section the
employee can turn off and turn on the transformer using the
Fig.3 PCB Layout of Home Section
GSM MODEM. The next section explains about the
simulation results of our proposed system implemented
The following Fig.4 explains about PCB layout for using KEIL software.
advanced metering infrastructure for EB using GSM
transformer section. IV.SIMULATION RESULTS
We simulate our proposed method using KEIL
Software.This software is used for writing a 8051
microcontroller program.It offers a evaluation package
which allows assembling and debugging ogf files.There are
many break points.We have used Keil μ vision 3 software
for project development cycle. To create a project we have
to select the target chip from the device database and
configure tool settings.After creating the source files test
with the linked application.The following fig.5 shows the
current breaking point..

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V. CONCLUSION
We achieved a satisfactorily results using advanced
metering infrastructure using GSM. The result has been
achieved after conducting a number of experiments before
finalizing the design work, this reduced the bottle necks and
we did not face much difficulty in the final integration
process. In general the entire development of the proposed
work was educative and we could gain a lot of experience
by way of doing the proposed work practically. It was
satisfying to see so many theoretical aspects work before us
in real life practice of which we heard through lectures and
of which we have studied in the books.This paper focuses on
advanced metering infrastructure system. This system used
to online EB billing when balance is too low. This system
used for home automation to turning ON/OFF the electrical
appliances by using the GSM. Overloaded electrical
appliances can be automatically turn ON/OFF .Getting the
Fig.5 PCB Layout of Transformer Section buzzer sound when prepaid balance is too low.when any
fault in the supply line from the transformer we can
The following fig.6 represents the Enable /Disable manually turn ON/OFF the transformer by using GSM.
Recording mechanism .in debugging operation.

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