| dc.description.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. | en_US |
