IOT Application for Energy Management in Smart Homes †

Abstract

Increases in population and industrialization have caused the consumption of electrical energy to perpetually increase. Therefore, it has become necessary to monitor, control, and efficiently utilize the energy consumption. Present power systems cannot monitor and control the flow of power at the distribution level efficiently; because of this, financial losses occur. Therefore, a system should be developed which can monitor and control the power system faster and in an efficient way using modern technologies in order to avoid these losses. This paper presents an IOT-based concept for energy management to monitor and control specific loads in buildings. Among many wireless technology protocols, the proposed solution uses Wi-Fi along with the programmable ESP8266 controller in order to monitor the voltage, current, and power of a few home appliances. The IOT scheme also pursues an additional web-server-based monitoring approach for the online visualization, monitoring, and control of electrical parameters.