INSIGHTS OF WSN BASED ENERGY MONITORING IN MICRO GRIDS

Micro grid technology is one of the recent developments in the area of electric power systems that aid the use of non-conventional sources of energy in parallel with the conventional sources of energy. Monitoring and control of micro grids is essential for its efficient and effective functioning. In this paper, we propose an architecture for monitoring the energy efficiency of the sources in micro grid applications using wireless sensor network (WSN) technology and IOT. WSN technology holds lot of promise in developing sensing and monitoring applications for a wide range of applications in any environment. The data thus acquired could be transmitted wirelessly even to remote locations for processing and further analysis thereby helping the decision makers to take appropriate measures. This paper discusses the experimentations done to develop a WSN based data acquisition system for calculating the energy efficiency of the different sources in micro grids