Electricity Usage Monitoring and Alerting System

Abstract

Electricity is one of the inevitable sources of energy in our day to day life. Almost every single device we use from the moment we wake up until going to bed is electrically powered. Meanwhile, there is always a problem of power scarcity in our country. It mainly depends on hydraulic power, and we don’t have much rainfall nowadays due to climate change issues. Our government is trying to overcome it and also to ensure power supply to all the consumers of the country without interruption. Reduced power consumption will lead to overcome electricity scarcity. Many pieces of research to monitor and reduce electricity usage is done in the past. However, most of them help to reduce electricity by displaying the total electricity consumption for a month. The best solution for this problem is to find the total electricity units consumed by each device for a given period of time rather than calculated as a whole. We have developed a gadget that will sense the electricity units consumed by a particular device being plugged in and will wirelessly transmit the units consumed in real-time and stored on a database. The total units consumed by the particular device per month will be calculated and displayed. Two prototypes are designed for this research and were tested over a two-week period of time. These gadgets can be plugged into any sockets and will help to detect the amount of power consumption, used through the gadget.