Smart Home Energy Management System based on the Internet of Things (IoT)
| Autor: | Kwame Agyeman-Prempeh, Emmanuel Ampoma Affum, Christian Adumatta, Kwadwo Ntiamoah-Sarpong, James Dzisi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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General Computer Science Energy management business.industry Computer science 020206 networking & telecommunications Cloud computing 02 engineering and technology NoSQL computer.software_genre Energy management system Microcontroller Home automation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Internet access 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing business Telecommunications computer Efficient energy use |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. 12 |
| ISSN: | 2156-5570 2158-107X |
| Popis: | The global increasing demand for energy has brought attention to the need for energy efficiency. Markedly noticeable in developing areas, energy challenges can be at-tributed to the losses in the distribution and transmission sys-tems, and insufficient demand-side energy management. Demand-oriented systems have been widely proposed as feasible solutions. Smart Home Energy Management Systems have been proposed to include smart Internet of Things (IoT)-capable devices in an ecosystem programmed to achieve energy efficiency. However, these systems apply only to already-smart devices and are not appropriate for the many locales where a majority of appliances are not yet IoT-capable. In this paper, we establish the need to pay attention to non-smart appliances, and propose a solution for incorporating such devices into the energy-efficient IoT space. As a solution, we propose Homergy, a smart IoT-based Home Energy Management Solution that is useful for any market –advanced and developing. Homergy consists of the Homergy Box (which is an IoT device with Internet connectivity, an in-built microcontroller and opto-coupled relays), a NoSQL cloud-based database with streaming capabilities, and a secure cross-platform mobile app (Homergy Mobile App). To validate and illustrate the effectiveness of Homergy, the system was deployed and tested in 3 different consumer scenarios: a low-consuming house, a single-user office and a high-consuming house. The results indicated that Homergy produced weekly energy savings of 0.5 kWh for the low-consuming house, 0.35 kWh for the single-user office, and a 13-kWh improvement over existing smart-devices-only systems in the high-consuming house. |
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