Design and development of smart energy meter for effective use of electricity in IoT applications

摘要

IoT (Internet of things) has delivered a venerable progression and advancements in the automation of home environments. The home automation has changed the manual frame work into robotization by making the household appliances smart which plays vital role now and more in the coming future. By connecting the household appliances to the internet for remote supervision and controlling. For better results home automation is employed with energy management strategy for better fallouts. Many energy management systems are available which are having expensive cost but are not efficient. By equipping the energy meters to home appliances, the amount of energy consumed can be calculated by each appliance. Enhanced facilities are provided to the user in this system. The remote user can monitor the electrical appliances, can turn ON and OFF through the web page. Webcam is employed in the proposed system for better functionality and to enhance the security so that remote user can observe the living home environment. A specific threshold values are specified to electrical appliances which reduces the power consumption in an effective way. The appliances will turn OFF automatically when it reaches to the specified threshold value. The implement system uses a Raspberry Pi 3 which realizes the data received form the remote users and the webcam. The data is uploaded into the web sever through Raspberry Pi which act as central server and visualization of data will be done the user in the website. The proposed and implemented system performs the monitoring and controlling of electrical appliance dynamically with low cost and efficiently which reduce the power consumption.