Monitoring and Rationalizing Energy Consumption of Home Electric Appliances

Abstract: There are several solutions exist to save energy consumption in residential, commercial and industrial buildings. This paper presents a new model device to monitor the consumption of energy consumed in homes to rationalize energy consumption using a wireless meter using Arduino controller. The controller calculates the actual energy consumption at any moment and sends it to the computer using Wi-Fi module. The energy is digitally measured using Arduino and displayed graphically. An energy saving plan is proposed to save energy in residential loads. The recorded results are filtered to rationalize the consumption of energy to the extent required. To evaluate the performance of the proposed system, an experimental setup is conducted on residential apartments and rationalizing the consumption of electric energy by reducing the load without prejudice to the normal state of loads. The rate of rationalization in electric power is reached 25% of the value of total consumption. Therefore, the goal of controlling consumption and rationalization is achieved accurately and at the lowest cost possible and using advanced electronic elements to eliminate the inaccuracy in reading the meter home.

Keywords: Energy meter; arduino based energy meter, electricity consumption, energy saving