IoT based Smart Microgrid Energy Management System

The project aim to fulfil the objective of sustainable, secure and economical power supply with consumers involvement. The main goals are reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, enhancement of grid reliability and energy self-sufficiency in distributed energy domains.  A system deve

Project Title

IoT based Smart Microgrid Energy Management System

Project Area of Specialization

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Project Summary

The project aim to fulfil the objective of sustainable, secure and economical power supply with consumers involvement. The main goals are reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, enhancement of grid reliability and energy self-sufficiency in distributed energy domains. 

A system developed for saving, monitoring the utilization, controlling and conservation of electrical energy. It is achieved with the help of sensing, monitoring and analyzing the statics of load and applying algorithm with the help of microcontrollers and Internet of Things (IoT) technology that make our system capable of selecting an energy source from either the power grid or PV system, according to the amount of power demand. Moreover the smart microgrid efficiently utilize the  harvested solar energy by mutual sharing subject to the availability. Furthermore it includes the schedule and control mechanism, incorporated for time automatic control of different appliances to reduce energy usage during peak hours with or without consumer intervention to reduce the electricity invoice.

Project Objectives

• Sustainable, secure and economical power supply system with consumers involvement.
• Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with incorporation of Solar PV System as a renewable energy system.
• Enhancement of grid reliability and energy self-sufficiency in distributed energy domains. 
• Energy conservation by efficient utilization of distributed energy generated locally.
• Managing the loads in peak hours to reduce electrical invoice.
• To help improving the peak load shaving for national power supply system.

Project Implementation Method

Design and development of Microgrid

• Incorporating Solar PV Generation system with the utility grid
• Charge controller for battery storage system
• Invertor to drive AC Loads

Integration of IoT with the system

• Implementing sensing and control mechanism for demand side load management
• Coding/ programming, applying algorithm to get the desired response on the microcontroller
• Developing user friendly GUI/Application for monitoring and control

Prototype development

•  Overall integration of the project
• Final Testing

Benefits of the Project

• Distributed energy generation helps in meeting the growing energy requirement
• Efficient utilization of collected solar energy 
• Peak load shaving with peak hours load management
• Provision of clean and affordable energy
• Reduce the dependency on conventional thermal generation consequently impacting country economy by reduction in petroleum import.
• Environment protection by reduction in carbon emission

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

A prototype modeled as a microgrid with two houses having different load demands each having installed a 50W solar PV panel, a charge controller, battery storage 7.5Ah, Invertor and a controller unit. They utilize solar energy harvested in day time to supply loads and store the excessive energy for use in night and/or during peak hours. They also share their stored energy with others on demand subject to availability. The each consumer have different kind of load i.e. first connected to conventional power supply grid only (representing Air Conditioners, Water pump and vaccum cleaner etc) second and third can switch between solar and grid, they can also run on shared solar power of the smart microgrid.

The smart grid will consist of a master controller and two slaves both slaves will be sharing thier data with the master controller with the help of IoT technology which will decide and record the sharing of the solar harvested energy in DC form.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Energy

Other Industries

Others

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and Clean Energy, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action

Required Resources

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