Open AccessReal Time Electrical Energy Monitoring and Cost Benefit Analysis using Smart Meter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.f1029.0386s20
Subject(s) - dashboard , smart meter , electricity meter , computer science , metering mode , electricity , metre , electric potential energy , energy consumption , energy (signal processing) , real time computing , real time data , embedded system , automotive engineering , power (physics) , electrical engineering , engineering , database , operating system , mechanical engineering , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , astronomy
Energy is an essential component in supporting people’s daily lives and is a significant economical element in development of the country. The eventual depletion of conventional energy resources and their harmful impacts on environment as well as the rising energy costs and the limitations of new energy resources and technologies have pushed efficient energy management to the top of the agenda. But how the energy utilization can be managed? A simple answer to this is viable and real time metering, which enables calculation of run time energy consumption and obtaining the real-time as well as cumulative cost. In this research an Innovative hardware and IoT based solution to this problem is availed that could provide live information related to consumption of electricity by various appliances. The methodology used in this research is mainly based on a hardware tool named Elite 440 which is a meter and provides the data about various electrical parameters. This data so obtained is made visible on the dashboard in a user friendly. The data so visible includes various parameters like voltage, current, power factor etc. Also the data so obtained on the dashboard gets updated in each five minutes and simultaneously the cost gets updated which makes it real time monitoring System.