IoT based Smart Power Grid Monitoring and Control using Arduino

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

This project describes the digitization of load energy usage readings over the internet. The proposed system design eliminates the involvement of human in electricity maintenance. The user can monitor energy consumption in watts from a webpage by providing a channel id for the load. The Webpage utilizes the THINGSPEAK analytics to analyze the energy usage to give more detailed description and visualization of the energy usage statistics. Wi-Fi unit performs IOT operation by sending energy data of the load to the webpage which can be accessed through the channel id of the device. In the proposed system, consumer can do power management by knowing energy usage time to time. This proposed system utilizes an Arduino microcontroller. The unit which is generated can be displayed on the webpage through the Wi-Fi module. Smart grid is one of the features of smart city model. It is energy consumption monitoring and management system. Smart grids are based on communication between the provider and consumer. One of the main issues with today’s outdated grid deal with efficiency. The grid becomes overloaded during peak times or seasons. It is also possible to hack the system, and basically, take free electricity. By using smart grid consumer and owner get daily electricity consumption reading and owner can cut electricity supply remotely through internet if bill is not paid. One more thing, the data collected from the smart meters should not be accessed by any unauthorized entities. In case meter tempering is happened then owner and consumer get message and then owner take the action accordingly. Fitting the circuit on customer’s energy meter, from that energy consumption data can be acquired. After acquiring of data, that data can be updated on cloud service, so that consumer and provider can access that data through internet.

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