Design and Implementation of smart load management system
The United States Mission to Pakistan today officially handed over an innovative new metering system to the Government of Pakistan to help network and market operators better manage the national power grid [1]. With increasing pressure on Pakistan?s
2025-06-28 16:26:25 - Adil Khan
Design and Implementation of smart load management system
Project Area of Specialization Electrical/Electronic EngineeringProject SummaryThe United States Mission to Pakistan today officially handed over an innovative new metering system to the Government of Pakistan to help network and market operators better manage the national power grid [1]. With increasing pressure on Pakistan’s limited energy and gas resources, Pakistani companies are seeking ways to decrease costs and adopt renewable sources that better match energy supplies and demand. One innovation many companies are considering is smart metering technology. Smart meters transmit real-time usage data back to the consumer, increase energy efficiency and provide user incentives to decrease excessive usage of electricity [2]. The basic implementation of the idea revolves around of the fact we are building a smart cloud-based energy metering system which will provide information about the power consumed and the power supplied to an individual. One can always be aware of the power generation cloud-based system. It also assures the productivity and safety of the loads.The United States Mission to Pakistan today officially handed over an innovative new metering system to the Government of Pakistan to help network and market operators better manage the national power grid [1]. With increasing pressure on Pakistan’s limited energy and gas resources, Pakistani companies are seeking ways to decrease costs and adopt renewable sources that better match energy supplies and demand. One innovation many companies are considering is smart metering technology. Smart meters transmit real-time usage data back to the consumer, increase energy efficiency and provide user incentives to decrease excessive usage of electricity [2]. The basic implementation of the idea revolves around of the fact we are building a smart cloud-based energy metering system which will provide information about the power consumed and the power supplied to an individual. One can always be aware of the power generation cloud-based system. It also assures the productivity and safety of the loads.The project we are building will also be monitoring the parameter through IoT structure based on java. This project will also ensure the efficiency of the system.
REFERENCES:
[1] By U.S. Mission Pakistan | 9 March, 2021
[2] Qazi, U., Iqbal, S., Zaheer, H., & Ur, R. T. (2020). Prepaid metering: A way forward for sustainable power sector in Pakistan. Energy Strategy Reviews, 31, 100546.
Project ObjectivesThe project embarks on the following objectives:
- To design and implement a IoT based energy meter and smart load management system.
- Implementation of IoT for control & parameters monitoring.
- Time efficiency.
- Precise information of the energy consumed.
- To build a load management system.
In the proposed system operator could interact with the system using a Smartphone application or by manual control through the touch panel on sub-units which will replace conventional switchboards.
Control Panel: will act as an intermediate medium between the system and operator and display the control and monitoring parameters using the Master hub.
BACKEND-UNIT: will comprises of robotics arm, system control circuit camera for image processing Master-hub to have a microprocessor to perform sorting of products.
MASTER-HUB: will have a micro processor, communicate with another interface with android app and have AI (machine learning) algorithms and a database embedded to keep data in order to detect QR and Barcode.
ANDROID APP: will provide the control features and monitoring parameters of products to be sorted as output.
Implementation scheme is shown below:
Following are the benefits of the project:
- We can monitor the parameters from anywhere from cloud-based systems. This ensures the safe of the loads as well as lives.
- This project can be used at homes, industries, hospitals and anywhere where there is necessity of monetized power generation and consumption.
- This product is time efficient as well as has higher efficiency of output.
- Human Errors will be reduced.
- Individual loads can be prioritize accounding to the need of the user.
The proposed system comprises of three units namely Master-hub, Back-end unit, and Control panel which consists of the following hardware:
- Elegant and compact exterior of Master-Hub and Control panels which will replace the conventional switchboards with touch switches.
- Control Unit for controlling the load management system.
- Android App for control and parameter monitoring.
- HMI for manual control in the control panel.
- LCD panels for monitoring different loads.
- The system will analyse the connected loads and consumption of the loads.
- Master Hub comprises of Arduino and wifi modules for transfering the data through IoT and show the data on the App.
| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 79100 | |||
| Energy Meter | Equipment | 1 | 8500 | 8500 |
| Control Circuit | Equipment | 1 | 10000 | 10000 |
| Electronic Component | Equipment | 1 | 8000 | 8000 |
| Body Structure Material | Equipment | 1 | 8200 | 8200 |
| Wiring and tools | Equipment | 1 | 6650 | 6650 |
| LCD panels | Equipment | 3 | 6000 | 18000 |
| Current Transformer | Equipment | 1 | 4500 | 4500 |
| Potential Transformer | Equipment | 1 | 5250 | 5250 |
| Poster and report Printing | Miscellaneous | 1 | 7000 | 7000 |
| Final model decoration | Miscellaneous | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |