IOT Based Smart Energy Meter Monitoring with Theft Detection

                 The aim of the project at proposing a system that will reduce the loss of power and revenue due to power thefts and other illegal activities. Power theft is the biggest problem in recent days which causes lot of loss to electricity boards. In countries like India, these situations are more often. If we can prevent these thefts we can save lot of power. This is done using Smart Energy Meter (SEM). SEM is an electric device having energy meter chip for measuring the electric energy consumed and a wireless protocol for data communication. This project presents a smart energy meter for an automatic metering and billing system.

                  The work system adopts a totally new concept of “Prepaid Electricity”. The GSM technology is used so that the consumer would receive messages about the consumption of power (in watts) and if it reaches the minimum amount, it would automatically alert the consumer to recharge. Then the consumer can recharge by using Adafruit.IO which is connected by using Nodemcu. User will get SMS if the Watts in the energy meter went beyond the limits. Then the user will login into Adafruit Io then he/she will enter the amount of watts that they need to recharge then the meter will be recharged

Keywords: Arduino uno, Node MCU, Energy meter, GSM, LCD, power supply