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Abstract
At present the electronic bill of our home is generated by noting down the reading manually and this needs man power. This requires more time and this will lead for the extra charges for the customer as the tariff rate varies for different units. Every management system is trying to make automatic, portable and remote control. This work presents a novel smart energy meter for an automatic and superior metering and billing system. The integration of the PIC microcontroller and GSM Short Message Service (SMS) provide the meter reading system with some automatic functions that are predefined. Firstly, we have simulated the paper in PROTEUS 8.0 then successfully implemented on the circuit board in laboratory. The proposed energy meter system can incorporate with embedded controller and GSM modem to transmit the data like consumed energy in kWh, generated bill over GSM mobile network such as data can be then fed and integrated into existing energy management systems located at power companies or organizations to provide the services among the customers without man-power. This paper is able to provide all required services remotely for metering and billing with high fidelity.