Low-Cost HEM with Arduino and Zigbee Technologies in the Energy Sector in Colombia
This addresses energy consumption reduction for residential users in Colombia, but it is incremental as it applies existing technologies to a new regional context.
The paper tackled the lack of residential electricity reduction solutions in Colombia by designing a low-cost home energy management system (HEMS) using Arduino and Zigbee, which reduced energy consumption by 27% in a typical household test.
Since no solutions have been proposed in Colombia that seek to reduce the consumption of electricity at the residential level, this paper describes the design and implementation of a simple prototype of a low-cost home energy management system (HEMS). The objective of this plat-form is to monitor the energy consumption of typical household devices so that users can access the consumption of each device separately and then establish the strategy that allows them to reduce energy consumption at home. In order to demonstrate that our system is viable, the system has been evaluated by measuring weekly energy consumption with the on-line and off-line HEMS using a test bench with typical household devices in a Sincelejo typical household. The evaluation has shown that with the installation of this HEMS, consumption is reduced by 27%. This shows that it is possible to achieve a good reduction percentage with a low-cost system.