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Advance Metering Infrastructure for Smart Grid
using GSM
Kavithakumari K.S Pravina Paul P
Assitant Professor, Dept of EEE Assitant Professor, Dept of EEE
Jeppiaar Engineering College Jeppiaar Engineering College
kavitha_eee2005@yahoo.co.in smppravi@gmail.com
Abstract—In with the proliferation of smart grid research, the
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has turn into the
initial ever-present and permanent platform for performing
computational operations. On the other hand, due to the
restricted uniqueness of AMI, such as difficult network
structure, data with privacy sensitivity and smart meter with
resource constrained mechanism it is an particularly
challenging issue for the AMI security. Power theft is one of the
most significant concerns connected to the implementation
strategy of smart grid .The utility companies lose more than
$15 billion every year due to power theft around the world
based on the estimation data gathered. To address this
challenge, in this paper, we talk about the background of AMI
and identify major security requirements that AMI should
meet. Specifically, an attack tree based threat model is first
offered to demonstrate the power-theft behaviors in AMI.
Then, we summarize the current AMI power-theft detection
schemes into three categories, i.e., classification-based, state
estimation-based and game theory-based ones, and make wide-
ranging comparisons and discussions on them. In order to
provide a deep understanding of security vulnerabilities and
solutions in AMI and shed light on future research directions.
The Household data automatically reading is important in the
process of power system information. It is also an urgent
problem that power industries want to solve because the
exactness and real time of meter data copy have an effect on
the power system information level, management decisions,
and economic benefits. Recently there have been numerous
reports concerning the automatic energy meter reading.
Keywords—Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Smart grid,
GSM
I.INTRODUCTION
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. Manpower must be hire to go from domestic after
domestic to read energy consumption, record data and
communicate with a receiving module. Use of manual
meters may possibly convert to meter reading mistakes and
errors of leakage. And there is main factors is vehicle theft,
yearly 60% of energy theft in India according to the recent
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CatherineAmalaPriya E
Assitant Professor, Dept of EEE
Jeppiaar Engineering College
rahulcathy@gmail.com
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
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Rong Jiang, Rongxinglu, et alThe power grid has
become a necessity in the modern society. Without a stable
and reliable power grid, tens of millions of people’s daily
life will be degraded dramatically. For instance, the India
blackout in July 2012 affected more than 60 million people
(about 9% of the world population) and plunged 20 of
Indian 28 states into darkness. Indeed, the traditional power
grid, which is surprisingly still grounded on the design more
than 100 years ago, can no longer be suitable for today’s
society. With the development of information system and
communication technology, many countries have been
modernizing the aging power system into smart grid, which
is featured with twoway transmission, high reliability, real-
time demand response, self-healing, and security. Within
smart grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) gives a
imperative role which is very closely related with day today
life of people life. AMI performs advanced functionality in
the metering system of electricity by utilizing smart meters
instead of using old mechanical meters. This mechanism
provide two-way communications between energy
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
response. In 2009, the FBI reported a wide and organized
energy-theft attempt that may have cost up to 400 million
dollars annually to a utility following an AMI deployment.
In Canada, BC Hydro reports $100 million in losses every
year. There are many losses around $4.5 billion and $5
billion in the various utility companies located around in
Brazil and India happens due to the theft done in electricity.
There is even a video which shows how to crack the meter
and cut the electricity bill in half in Youtube.As a result,
energy-theft matters turn into one of the the majority
significant concern which exclude the growth of AMI.The
exclusive dispute for theft of energy in AMI calls for the
improvement of successful detection method. Sudhish N
George, Ashna. k existing meter interpretation system in
India are investigated and conducted an widespread reading
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on various recently available energy measuring instruments.
In the available existing procedures moreover an electro-
mechanical meter or electronic energy meter is fixed for
usage measurement in the premise. For the mechanism of
Automatic Meter Reading various research groups has
proposed systems built on a variety of platforms have been
planned all over the world.
Wireless and wire based are the various types of
AMR systems. Telephone Line Network (optical/ cable) and
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
long-distance data information transfers which based upon
GPRS is proposed. These techniques can’t be put into
operation so without difficulty since the ordinary utilization
of GPRS is still a dream to the common people. A more
reliable and user friendly system with web portal for
multiple access using the advanced Visual studio .net
frame work is created in this proposed work which will
manage the data efficiently even if there is loss of SMS. It
formulate the design dissimilar to the earlier proposals.A
master PC at the control centre was used to send instructions
to a distant meter, which in turn transmitted data back, by
means of the Power Line Communication (PLC)
procedure. These strategy were primarily put into practice in
areas that had a permanent telephone network. Bluetooth
energy meters were manufactured and put into practice in
some areas where a number of meters in close proximity,
communicated wirelessly with a Master PC.
2.1.Existing System
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. The following Fig.1. explains about the general block
diagram used in existing system.
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Fig.1 General block diagram
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2.2.Objective
The main objectives of proposed system is to minimize
the over load appliances when prepaid amount balance is too
low. We use a GSM modem to control the ON/OFF section
of the transformer. To perform a automatic billing system
which reduces the energy theft before using EB meter. We
set a alarm in the EB meter when there is low balance. The
rest of the paper is organized as proposed system,
Simulation results and conclusion.
III.PROPOSED SYSTEM
In the proposed system AT89C51 microcontroller is used
for the competent energy meter system with monitoring
facility. The AT89C51 is a low-power, high-performance
CMOS 8-bit microcontroller which has Flash memory with
in-system programmable facility with 8K bytes. The
information transfer operation is carried with 8 bit bi-
directional ports. The device is feigned by means of Atmel’s
high-density non-volatile memory technique and is well-
suited with the Industry standard 8051instruction set and pin
out operation is performed. This system is connected with
the energy meter with load. The readings of the energy
meter are counted with help of IR receiver. The value given
as output from the IR receiver will be given to the
microcontroller. Command to the GSM modem will be send
if recharge operation will be performed by the user. 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 put on show in LCD
which is interfaced with the microcontroller. In case any
error in the home sections the employee can turn off and
turn on the transformer using the GSM MODEM. There are
two sections available in this section: (a) Home Section, (b)
Transformer Section. We can give the 230V AC supply to
the principal transformer then the same supply given to the
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
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
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.2 Proposed block diagram
PCB layout is used both in home section and
Transformer section. The following Fig.3 explains about the
PCB layout of Home section.
Fig.3 PCB Layout of Home Section
The following Fig.4 explains about PCB layout for
advanced metering infrastructure for EB using GSM
transformer section.
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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.
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. 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
GSM MODEM. The next section explains about the
simulation results of our proposed system implemented
using KEIL software.
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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Fig.5 PCB Layout of Transformer Section
The following fig.6 represents the Enable /Disable
Recording mechanism .in debugging operation.
Fig.6 Debug – Enable/Disable Trace Recording
The hardware design explained about the components
used here in order to produce the classroom automation and
to reduce the power consumption. It reduces the manual
work. Finally the results displayed using KEIL software and
advanced metering system is build using GSM.
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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
buzzer sound when prepaid balance is too low.when any
fault in the supply line from the transformer we can
manually turn ON/OFF the transformer by using GSM.
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