Development of Internet of Things (IoT) Based Energy Consumption Monitoring and Device Control System

Received 26 May 2020 Revised 16 June 2020 Accepted 17 June 2020 Available online 31 August 2020 Internet of Things is an amplification of existing internet facility to provide communication, connection and internetworking amongst several devices and physical objects also identified as “Things”. The recent explosion in urbanization over the past few years has necessitated the need for sustainable, efficient, and smart solutions for monitoring energy consumption and management. The conventional domestic energy consumption monitoring systems are incapacitated to automatically monitor, bill and manage energy consumption of IoT homes. Hence, to address this shortcoming, this paper presents an IoT based energy consumption monitoring and controlling device using Atmega328 Microcontroller. The proposed system is able to monitor, bill, control and monitor energy consumption of individual and all appliances. Furthermore, the system is able to compute the total energy consumption and billing which is automatically sent to consumers. The proposed system exhibits an average overall performance accuracy of about 95%. This shows that the proposed system is promising for energy consumption monitoring and management.