RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Smart Metering

Smart Metering is an Automatic Meter Reading, Application designed to automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from utility meters (electric, water and gas) and transferring the retrieved data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing etc. Meter Reading is an application that will help you monitor your consumption of e.g. electricity, gas or water. But in fact anything that has a meter can be monitored with Meter Reading. You may have potential savings in your budget if you monitor your consumption and change the way you consume energy. The Application is built essentially to monitor the energy usage and accessing the daily energy data which can result in better energy management. Enabling accurate data stored, analyzed and presented to a customer on demand. Tracking the real-time consumption on a day to day basis in the most cost effective way to identify energy wastage coupled with analysis, can help both utility providers and customer's control the use and production of electric energy, gas usage, or water consumption. The Application used in utility meters for collecting the data that's needed for billing purposes. Keywords- OCR, Zig Bee protocol, AMR I