Home Energy Saving Using a Consumption Monitoring Device

Abstract

Energy efficiency is a practice that is focused on reducing energy consumption through the rationalized and optimal use of electricity, its importance at present is due to the fact that it has emerged as a response to the environmental problems caused mainly by the burning of fuels fossils used for energy production. Based on this principle, a monitoring system has been developed to save energy through energy management, controlling loads through a network of sensors and estimating the possible energy consumption through the raspberry pi that acts as a central console integrating the subsystems (the virtual platform, the sensor network and the internet connection). The results that have been obtained from the previous research and applying the experimental method are the development of a system capable of evaluating the order of the user, where it expresses an approximate value in pesos of its invoice and said program returns the hours destined for each household appliance; for this, internally, the system consults the way of charging energy expenditure to calculate how much should be consumed in order to reach the desired amount, taking into account the hierarchy of some devices to be frequently used, as well as the subjection of devices of low power and the use of a fixed consumption table in which the appliances that are of continuous use are entered. Finally, it should be noted that the success of the system is linked to a strong culture of savings and a wiring network in optimum condition.