A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TRADITIONAL METERING SYSTEM AND GSM BASED METERING SYSTEM

OYUBU A.O.

Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering,

Delta State University, Oleh, Nigeria.

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ABSTRACT

Although many researchers hitherto have devoted their energies in working and showing copiously that the automatic metering system which has of date incorporated the GSM technology and thus has been modified to GSM based metering system, smart and intelligent GSM based metering system, GSM based automatic meter reading system or automated Billing system among others is the best, most accurate, and  most efficient  metering system in comparison with the traditional metering system, many electricity consumers, and power supply companies have not wholly embraced it use. This paper, a comparative analysis of the traditional metering system and GSM based metering system aims to demystify the benefits of the new metering technology; namely, GSM based metering system and hence encourage its acceptance over the old system namely, the traditional system.