Design and Development of IOT based Smart Electronic Energy Meter and AC Control system for Smart Homes

Abstract

Increasing demand and cost of energy has led many organizations to find smart ways for controlling, monitoring and saving energy [7]. This project proposes the concept of monitoring the energy/power consumed by the smart homes. Data such as voltage, frequency, KWH is fetched from the energy meter through Modbus protocol and sent to the cloud. The fetched data can be viewed in real time through mobile application.  We can see the person coming from electricity board, whose duty is to read the energy meter and give the bills to the house owner every month. According to that reading which is given by electricity board we have to pay the bills. The main drawback of this system is that person has to go everywhere to read the meter of every house and handover the bills. To overcome this problem we have come up with an idea which will eliminate the third party or the human resource between the consumer and service provider (electricity board), even the errors will be overcome. From this energy monitoring and optimization, the energy can be utilized efficiently and will save the amount of energy. In this project we are designing an efficient IOT based electronic energy meter which is used in optimization of energy consumption and in billing system. In this project we also design an AC control device which helps in ON and OFF of the AC appliances. The data which is stored in the cloud, can be used for analyzing the energy consumption as well as the amount of energy saved by energy optimization.

Keywords: Energy Meter, ESP8266, Modbus Protocol, MQTT, Wi-Fi.