I need some help please, I'm trying to simulate this project using proteus 8.0 but I don't no which device could I use instead of energy meter.
What is your "prepaid energy meter with theft detection"? What are you really trying to achieve? need way more info
You should also define what you mean by theft here:
Is it the use of energy, measured through the meter, which is not supported by a payment transaction somewhere ?
ie where someone has electronically forged a message to the energy meter to so they can draw energy without having paid.
Must you also guard against the type of theft where say someone tries to bypass the energy meter, say with crocodile clips ?
Post the full assignment you have been given for more assistance here.
I'm trying to simulate this project using proteus 8.0
THIS IS NOT THE PROTEUS FORUM. You've mistaken us for people why give a sh*t about that stupid emulator.
I'm sorry for that. I am a college student and this project (prepaid energy meter with theft detection) is my final year project. Energy theft can be Internal energy theft which occurs after the energy reaches to energy meter while external energy theft occurs before the energy reaches to energy meter.The system starts with GSM modem Connection and first configures the user number and gives authority to that number.
When the external or internal theft occurs in system, the system immediately inform authority or user with message also system will able to send message when the prepaid balance is low or Zero. in need a help with Arduino sketch and how could I simulate the project
I'm going to use Arduino Uno, GSM, parallel LCD and an analogy energy meter
Can you define :
(a) The process for setting up new customer of this energy service.
(b) The process by which a customer purchases units of energy from the supplier.
(c) The interaction between the energy meter and any controller managed by the energy supplier.
(d) How you are going to identify cases of "internal theft" and "external theft"
I am confused. You want to simulate a certain type of electric power meter. Can you imagine you are a meter? what do you need to do as a meter? Measure the AC current for some period of time. Maybe one second? Then accumulate the current usage. If you want to convert that to power or watt -hours, do that. Oh, the meter must report the power usage. So simulate that display. Perhaps on the serial monitor from your PC. Do you need to reset the accumulated power? So make provisions to reset it. Does accumulated power need to roll-over to zero? Figure how to handle that?
If you can imagine it, you can program to simulate it.
Paul
thanks