Application of IoT for Power Controlling in Smart Home

The rapid growth in the population of major cities is causing an increase in energy consumption. Several approaches, including the use of recent technological advancements, are becoming increasingly important. IoT-based applications are becoming more common in addressing a variety of real-time issues. The central idea of the project in collaborating with this new technology is the human-machine interaction. Furthermore, the proposed architecture enables energy-saving applications that perform the following primary functions: estimating energy utilization of the home environment using metering devices, and applying user-defined limits that cut off boundaries providing if it exceeds energy limits. The Internet serves as an interactive medium between servers and home appliances, monitoring and controlling energy consumption remotely. For this purpose, the android platform is used to design a mobile application. Raspberry Pi is dedicated for the server that maintains the database of each controllable unit. The proposed idea is successfully tested in the laboratory environment with synthetic load and in real-time over a running energy meter, to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness.