Smart electricity monitoring and analysing an IoT system with a mobile application

Abstract

Now, the demand for electricity has increased in the World. This demand was increased concern to the raises of many developed and developing nations in the world. In Sri Lanka, the energy was provided by only less electricity power stations. So, the scarcity of electricity has occurred eventually. Thus, reducing and controlling power consumption will be responsible for all consumers. Furthermore, consuming data should be tracked by the consumer is essential now. But recently, consumers are using traditional meters in each home. It has failed to provide these facilities to the user. Moreover, Digital meter is trying to reduce these limitations. This research study focuses on a Smart Electricity Monitoring System using a mobile application. This is an IoT based project. The electricity consumption can be observed by the user through a userfriendly mobile app. And also, the monthly electricity bill has automated. This smart electricity meter system can be separated into three divisions, and the first system is the hardware setup using Arduino to measure electricity consumption at home. The real-time Alternate current and Alternate voltage through the hardware setup were measured through this system. By considering these values, the Alternate power will be generated. Then the real-time values were converted to units(kW/h) and sent to the database through Wi-Fi. The real-time database in Firebase was the other system. Storing real-time data and permitting them to retrieve them through the mobile application was the main function here. The final system is the user-friendly android application. This system aims to get more involvement of the consumer to their electricity consumption and reduce global electricity consumption. As the results can be observed through the mobile application, the user can get some idea of saving and reducing electricity than earlier.