IoT enabled intelligent energy management and optimization scheme with controlling and monitoring approach in modern classroom applications

Abstract

Modern campuses have been built with many modern facilities and aids for comfort and to enhance teaching quality. Some of these include smart electronic boards, projectors, desktops, air conditioning apart from lights, and fans. Most campuses have large number of classroom and student population with good number of courses. This demands very complex classroom allocation prices for their optimal utilization. In spite of best effects, continuous use of classroom is difficult. This causes same classroom going vacant regularly and many times, the equipment and light/fans are left ON, causing heavy consumption of energy. A system to eliminate wastage of energy, a smart classroom energy management system (CEMS) has been considered and pilot of the same has been tested. Based on the survey of a typical modern campus academic building, the proposed system can give 10–30% of energy saved which in turn provides a savings of lakhs of rupees per month. The system can be easily adopted to other similar scenarios without considering infrastructural redesign like in meeting room, etc. using Low Power Sensors (LPS), resulting into huge savings.