Real-Time Monitoring System for Sustainable Domestic Electric Power Consumption

Abstract:

Utility monitoring system plays a vital role for consumers in domestic areas to identify their electric power usage, thus creates awareness, motivates and educates consumers about saving power consumption. This paper develops a monitoring system for electric power usage, designed consisting of a digital meter, display unit, microcontroller, auto-generated data-based logging and communication device. The system is in real-time structure which measures the power usage by hourly basis and displays the results in kWh every time in convenient and organized manner. The data-based logging feature enables utility usage information to be recorded in timely basis. An additional feature provided in this system is a notification module that send charges information corresponding to consumer’s utility usage. Consumers are able to be aware of the utility usage with the corresponding charges at real-time basis as well as capable to predict, control and manage their utility usage on daily manner. Eventually this system is beneficial for both parties which are the consumers and the utility provider.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 699)
• Pages: 816-821
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.699.816
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Mohamad Riduwan Md Nawawi, Johar Akbar Mohamat Gani, Mohd Ruzaini Hashim, Mohanraj Letchimenan, Sundram Ramahlingam
• Keywords: Digital Meter, LabVIEW, Monitoring System, Power Consumption, Real-Time, Utility

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