“ZIGBEE based monitoring theft detection and automatic electricity meter reading”

Abstract

Now-a-days electricity meter reading and billing is conducted manually by door-to-door system. This system, as observed requires a large amount of man power and is also the time & energy consumption. To overcome the limitations of this traditional system, proposal of a prototype module which includes advanced wireless technology called “ZIGBEE”. The proposed module helps to reduce the time delay, errors and theft of electricity. The ZigBee is preferred over other wireless technologies because it works in unlicensed frequency band, it does not requires high speed data rate, also this device is low powered and low cost. The microcontroller based system continuously monitors the reading and theft detection that can be seen on the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display.