Appliance-Level Monitoring with Micro-Moment Smart Plugs
This system addresses the problem of energy inefficiency for homeowners by providing detailed appliance-level monitoring and contextual environmental data to encourage behavioral changes.
This paper proposes a micro-moment-based smart plug system designed to monitor appliance energy consumption and environmental factors like temperature, humidity, luminosity, and room occupancy. The system aims to provide end-users with visualized data through a mobile application, enabling home automation capabilities. The current implementation demonstrates cost-effective deployment with adequate computational and wireless performance.
Human population are striving against energy-related issues that not only affects society and the development of the world, but also causes global warming. A variety of broad approaches have been developed by both industry and the research community. However, there is an ever increasing need for comprehensive, end-to-end solutions aimed at transforming human behavior rather than device metrics and benchmarks. In this paper, a micro-moment-based smart plug system is proposed as part of a larger multi-appliance energy efficiency program. The smart plug, which includes two sub-units: the power consumption unit and environmental monitoring unit collect energy consumption of appliances along with contextual information, such as temperature, humidity, luminosity and room occupancy respectively. The plug also allows home automation capability. With the accompanying mobile application, end-users can visualize energy consumption data along with ambient environmental information. Current implementation results show that the proposed system delivers cost-effective deployment while maintaining adequate computation and wireless performance.