A

technical Seminar
On
PREPAID ENERGY METER USING SMART CARD
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN
ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
Submitted
By
K.PRASAD
15701A0257
III B.TECH 1-SEM
Under The Esteemed Guidance Of
Mr. K.HARINATH REDDY , M. Tech.
Associated Professor
DEPARTMENT OF EEE

DEPARTMENET OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

ANNAMACHARYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCES
(AUTONOMOUS)
(Affiliated to J.N.T UNIVERSITY ANANTAPUR);
RAJAMPET-516 126(A.P)
DATE: 05-08-2017 2017-2018 SIGNATURE OF GUIDE
 INTRODUCTION
BLOCK DIAGRAM
HOW TO WORKING
COMPONENTS
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
APPLICATIONS
CONCLUSION
 Prepaid Energy Meter using Smart Cards is an efficient scheme of
electricity billing. It is beneficial to consumers and power plant in
terms of revenue and power sector reforms. Prepayment metering
system had improved operational efficiencies, Reduced financial
risks and provides better customer service.
Recently many countries had introduced Prepaid Energy Meter
using Smart Cards like South Africa, India and England. In India
Tata power (Delhi and Jamshedpur) and Mumbai BEST service is
following this scheme.
Present prepayment system is difficult to install and costly. There
is no communication back to utility from meter. Utilities also
don't have the knowledge on consumption and tampering info.
Smart cards are of same size as a standard credit card
 When the switch is made on, the supply reaches the
microcontroller
It then checks for the balance in the smart card, if the there is
balance in it the load gets connected to the supply.
The load gets energy until the amount stored in the smartcard
decreases to zero
Then the microcontroller gives the signal to relay for
disconnecting the load from supply.
LCD shows the customer to recharge.
The smartcard can be used again after recharging
 The smartcard is connected with the recharge section to
recharge
The incrementing switch and decrementing switch is used to
set the amount
After setting the amount it is loaded to the smartcard by
pressing recharge switch
The smartcard can be connected to the meter section for
further use.
PREPAID ENERGY CARD
 Micro Controller
Energy Meter
Opto-coupler
LCD
Crystal oscillator
Low cost
Wide availability
Low power consumption
An energy meter is a device that measures
the amount of electrical energy consumed by
a residence, business, or an electrically
powered device.
Electric meters are typically calibrated in
billing units, the most common one being
the kilowatt hour.
They are broadly classified in to
electromechanical meters and electronic
meters.
Gallium Arsenide Diode Infrared Source
Optically Coupled to a Silicon npn Photo
transistor
High-Voltage Electrical Isolation 1.5-kV, or
3.55-kV Rating.
High Direct-Current Transfer Ratio
The LM016L LCD displays alphanumeric,
characters, and symbols.
Can be configured to drive a dot-matrix
liquid crystal display under the control of a
4or 8 bit microprocessor.
Wide range of instruction functions.
Low power operation .
This frequency is used to provide a stable clock
signal(CLK frequency 20MHz ).
Quartz crystal is used as the piezoelectric resonator because
of their greater mechanical strength.
 Its mainly advantage of avoid wastage of power.
Prepaid energy meter is more reliable and user friendly.
The user not bound to pay excess amount of money.
Daily,weekly monthly budgeting.
Flexible payment solution.
No billing errors.
 The need for regular visits to remove cash.
Its risk of theft of the cash in the meter.
Its not secured .
 Its applicable for homes and company.
Its applicable all college lab experiment (ex small amount
of energy used).
 The traditional billing system has a lot of drawbacks such
as energy theft, slowness, requirement of manpower which
can be avoided by this.
The reason for using these microcontrollers is its high
performance, power efficiency or design flexibility etc.
The recharge section is very much user friendly since he
can recharge for the required amount as per his budget