Smart Energy Management and Load Monitoring of Individual Loads

Abstract

As India continues to urbanise with its manufacturing sector growing, its energy demands have increased rapidly. In this period, the need for energy monitoring and conservation must be evident. So the consumers can monitor their load consumption by a digital wattmeter. But the digital wattmeter measures and shows the total power consumed by consumer appliances. The consumer has no idea about which appliance consumes more power. Also, the consumer will not be able to know whether any appliance is getting damaged. To resolve these issues, we have come up with this project which is an IOT-based energy monitoring and controlling system, used to measure the power consumed by each appliance (Load). The power consumed by each appliance can be monitored individually by the consumer and it also informs us if there is an issue through a web application. Also the web application stores the historical data of the power consumed by each load. An Internet of Things (IoT) technique was employed to make the system smart. A microcontroller with built-in Wi-Fi - ESP32 - was used to monitor and control each load using a web application.