Abstract:
he adaptation of conventional homes into “smart homes” has seen an incredible rise in
recent years. Peoples want to shift toward solar systems to reduce their monthly electric
bills. However, the solar power produced by the solar panels does not utilized more
efficiently, that is why the reduction in the monthly electric bills is not reduced as
expected. Mostly the system that is used to reduce electric bills is by using the on-grid
solar system but that is not common and it is costly. Our goal is to build a system that
utilizes maximum solar by telling the user about their solar power generation and power
consumption along with this it allows the user to control loads through a mobile
application. Our smart plug is able to deliver sufficient energy consumption records for
the placement of structures to accomplish electricity consumption. The smart plug can
measure the energy consumption information and send those data to the main system and
mobile application, tell the user solar power produced and power consumed. If the solar is
producing more power than it consumed by loads, then it informed to the user through a
mobile application to use some of the loads at that time. If solar is producing less power
and loads are, consuming more than it notifies the user through a mobile application to
cut off some extra loads. This project is to introduce a home energy management system
through a smart plug that is designed and implemented in both hardware and software.
