IoT Based Smart Energy Consumption Monitoring System

Abstract

This project describes the digitization of energy meter usage readings over the internet. The growth of population and the rise of electrical appliance usage have been increasing the electricity consumption, leaving a lot of the industrial sectors desperate to optimize their energy consumption. The energy meter provided by the service provider for billing is an accumulated energy used type. This meter measures in kilowatt-hour (kWh) which is not suitable for detailed review and analysis. The lack of data measurement and recording for every energy load point lead to incorrect planning and target for managing energy performance. Thus, this project developed an energy monitoring system that aims to provide users with information about the consumption trend in their buildings. In this project, the power sampling in watts or kilowatts has been taken in the distribution board from two different consumption loads. The two load sampling data were transmitted using Node MCU ESP82266 as the controller to MySQL to store the data in the cloud. As part of this project, the system is provided with a website and a mobile application that allow users to get the real-time energy usage for every load for the entire building. Based on the experimental result using sampling data, the website displayed a live data page providing information on power usage, accumulated kWh, cost in Ringgit Malaysia and the peak power in watt. This project contributes to the existing knowledge of energy monitoring systems by providing detailed energy reviews from two or more load points as well as the capability to store raw data in the cloud which can be retrieved from the website for future planning and management. Now day consuming electricity is increasing as the evolution of new technology is emerging. The electrical power company measures the electrical power unit consumed by the users at the end of every month, but for this they need to visit each customer. It is getting difficult for the electricity board officials to take energy meter readings and calculate the bill of the consumed electricity. Also, they put extra bill amount even though if the electrical bills are paid. So to overcome this, it is necessary to make a monitoring system that can automatically detect the meter readings and can save human efforts of visiting every house and then there will be no fraud bill amount that consumers need to pay. By adding these features to the energy meter, it can be termed as Smart energy meter.