An Efficient Strategy for Design of Prepaid Energy Meter to Control Electricity Theft

Abstract

This paper proposes a new procedure to implement a controller based smart prepaid energy meter whichcan also control electricity thefts. The energy meter makes use of the global system for mobile communication [GSM]network to include the capability of prepaid metering system and remote load control. A prepaid energy meter isinstalled in every consumer home which makes use of an ARM 7[LPC 2148] microcontroller to calculate the energyconsumed and a server unit is preserved at the service provider side