Home Energy Management system

Project Title

Home Energy Management system

Project Area of Specialization Shared EconomyProject Summary

There has been a focus in the power industry to reduce the demand on the grid during times of peak energy uses. This has lead power provider to find new approaches for balancing the load and improving reliability. Home Energy Management System also includes solar panel as renewable energy source and batteries for storing the charges. It is a product that monitors, manage and control the energy in homes. Arduino is used for controlling and routing electricity to loads. This system set the devices to operate on the schedule, priorities and power consumption.

Project Objectives

Objective of current work is to design a system which will meet the needs of energy crisis and develop a system that is economically in a range that everyone can buy it and implement it easily. As now a days UPS is used to overcome load shedding, goal is to design a system which is more economically and efficient than UPS. Except this purpose of designing this system is:

• Make system which can be implemented with UPS wiring or no extra wiring require to implement this system
• To determine prime loads and make sure that they will never effected by load shedding
• Better solution of load shedding problem than existing solutions
• Minimize the loads on Grid
• Minimize the peak hour consumption of electricity
• Divide the loads on two or more than two sources

Project Implementation Method

This project should be implemented in home to provide efficient energy management. Due to energy crisis, devices like these are much required. This will reduce the energy wastage of domestic load of electricity consequently making usage of electricity efficient. Many developed countries use this technology make their electricity usage efficient. This system is basically a prototype so it is expensive but if this project is developed for production at large scale then this project will become much economical and reliable. This system is efficient enough to manage energy of home smartly by also keeping records of peak hours to make usage economical and reduce high energy usage at peak hours when energy is much costly. This system reduces that amount of electricity at peak hour consequently reducing the bill paid by customer to utilize for electricity also this function reduces the load from grid at peak hours consequently facilitating utility by producing supply load on grid. Implementation of these system is highly required to make electricity usage efficient. Arduino is used to control.

Benefits of the Project

Home Energy Management System is a device which monitor, manage and minimize the consumption of energy of electrical and electronic devices at home and save the energy. It also helps to reduce the wastage of energy. Power management can be done by this device by taking the energy consumption in real time. It observes input from user to identify the peak hours and manage the energy during peak hours. It contain the solar panel as renewable source and batteries to store the charges and then providing energy according to the power consumption from these two sources.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Deliverable of this project is hardware system which have capabilites to full fil the demand of three rooms using two energy sources( Grid and Solar). 

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemType of Industry Energy Technologies OthersSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	27500
Arduino	Equipment	3	500	1500
Charge controller	Equipment	1	1000	1000
battery	Equipment	1	10000	10000
Inverter	Equipment	1	5000	5000
Soar pannel	Equipment	1	10000	10000