Integration of IoT on Power Monitoring and Control for House Electrical System

Abstract

IoT (Internet of Things) was the development of the advanced technology that is increasing popularity. Due to this increasing popularity, IoT growing the interest for the used in home such that the housing electrical load is controlled online by using IoT devices which it can be controlled anywhere and anytime. This can make the life of the person becoming more easy and better in line with the technology which becoming more advanced. The manual way which is traditional ways for controlling ON/OFF switching of the housing electrical load can be changed to online controlling by using the IoT devices. Some of the reasons of this change due to the attitude of the people becomes lazy or tend to become forgetful due to their busy life. In order to prevent this to be happened which lead to the increasing of electricity bill, this project is introduced. This project system works by using the Arduino Nano with the connection of ESP8266 Wi-Fi module in the process of developing of Internet of Things (IoT). This can make the users can control the switching of electrical load online by using phone when interfacing with Blynk platform. Besides, the system also included of online power monitoring system using ACS712 current sensor to monitor the amount of current and power consumption for the housing electrical load that will be display in Blynk application.