INTELLIGENT PLUG FOR USER AWARENESS AND POWER MANAGEMENT

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN ENGINEERING

In today's busy life style we are ignoring about power loss through different appliances in home, and they are working even if no one is in home, so we need a reminder which give status about the working of different home appliances in different plug points. Short circuit or over load causes fire or power failure in building/home, so continuous monitoring of load variations helps to avoid danger. Many of us forget to turn off the appliance after use and sometimes they think about that after leaving the home. So we need a system which give provision for turning on or off the loads remotely. The proposed system, uses GPRS communication for accessing the electrical parameters like voltage, current consumption. From the time the plug began to power the load, it starts to send signals from smart plug to an android device and android application installed in it shows the details. User can set the limits for voltage and current, and the system will give alert message when anything goes beyond the limit. Android application have option to set limit for different parameters and also for On Off time management. When smart Plug is connected to the socket, at the same time it starts to operate with the android device. Android application shows the electrical parameters available through the GPRS communication. GUI available facilitate user to set parameters threshold values, and set timer for On/Off conditions. User can set the over voltage limit, lower voltage limit, current limit, and off time using the application software.

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