Energy Meter Data Acquisition System for Smart Metering Application

The Energy meter data acquisition system with wireless communication is presented here. The proposed method is based on wireless communication with use of an RF Transceiver and GSM module. The power consumption is measured with digital energy meter in terms of Units and then the power measurement readings are transmitted with use of RF transmitter from energy meter to the center node, which contains an RF receiver and GSM module as Data Forwarder. The GSM module will forward the data to the end utility office. Therefore, the proposed method will work with two type of communications. First, short distance wireless communication with use of RF Transceiver from energy meter to the center node and second will be for long distance wireless communication from center node to the end utility office with use of GSM module. A case study is presented with one node here. The power consumption data are received and stored for analysis and further they can be used for future references and customer billing system.