Author : Noof T. Mahmood and Eyad I. Abbas

This paper introduced a proposed system to development the way of controlling, monitoring, and reading the consumer energy meter by remote wireless ZigBee communication network. The ZigBee is advancing global standard in wireless communications with the low cost, low data rate, and low power consumption. The traditional electromechanical energy meter was used in every consumer of the Iraqi house can be adopted by converting it to a pulse production that increase with amount of consumption. The calculates number of units consumed transfer to control circuitry represented by Microcontroller, which providing with real time clock, liquid crystal display to show consumption and time and a memory to keep consumer data when power is cut. This solution of wireless energy meter controlling, monitoring, and automatic reading system is able to send its data via wireless communication to a base station where monitoring and analysis of the data from consumer energy meter for energy management. Also, the system can avoid manual meter reading mistakes, and errors of leakage of metering reading, fast, accurate, economical, flexible and reliable following mode of electrical energy.

Keywords: Energy meter, ZigBee, and Microcontroller

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.5 (Sept/Oct 2017)