Smart Monitoring of Energy Consumption in Residential Environment using IoT

Abstract


Energy waste in Brazil has been growing in recent years and one reason for this increase is the fact that the end-user is usually unaware of the amount of energy consumed by their home appliances. On the other hand, the Internet of Things (IoT) brings concepts, such as smart objects with their data collection and analysis, which can help end-users in the identification of their home appliances' energy consumption. Therefore, this work proposes an intelligent monitoring system capable of discovering the devices connected to the power grid in real-time. Using a smart device, installed in the power grid, our proposed system extracts the consumption characteristics of the appliances and send them to a classification algorithm in the cloud. We performed controlled experiments to evaluate the proposed solution and, as a result, all appliances connected to the power grid were identified, allowing the end-users to monitor their home energy consumption.

Keywords: Energy Consumption, Smart Monitoring, IoT

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Published
2020-06-30
SEVERINO, Valdenir; VASCONCELOS, Danilo; ANDRADE, Rossana. Smart Monitoring of Energy Consumption in Residential Environment using IoT. In: PROCEEDINGS OF BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON UBIQUITOUS AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING (SBCUP), 12. , 2020, Cuiabá. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2020 . p. 31-40. ISSN 2595-6183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcup.2020.11209.