Intelligent Home Power Management System

ABSTRACT

Demand Response (DR) and Time-of-Use (TOU) pricing refer to programs which
offer incentives to customers who use their energy on demand. In this paper, we propose an
integrated solution to manage and re-engineer the electricity demand in a locality at an given
time. The system presented in this paper expands DR to residential loads by dynamically
controlling the power and controlling appliances in each dwelling unit. A decision control
system is developed to detect electricity demand in the home and enable the user to save
energy by taking optimal run time schedules for appliances, thereby reducing the energy
consumption. The schedule is controlled on appliances over a self-organizing home energy
network and executed by the appliance control interfaces developed in this study. A detection
algorithm is developed to predict, based on the user's life style, the potential schedules for
appliance run times. This device can run independently or integrated to a network.

Innovation: This project is a combination of multiple project ides to combine and increase
the overall efficiency of the system. The first project is adaptive power control for buildings;
the second one is the Smart power meter of power grid load optimisation. The project works
but cutting of the power to home by when excess power is consumed. It will give a warning
and if the excess power is cut down by user the power will be cut down temporarily for the
home. Then second stage is power saving, it works by automatically cutting down the power
to room lighting and cooling if none is present in the room.
 Power From Mainlines

Voltmeter Current meter

Power
Calculation

High Power
LCD
Relay
Microcontroller Display

First room Second room Third room

PIR PIR PIR

Relay Controller

Second
First Device Third Device
Device
 The circuit consist of micro controller voltage sensor current sensor, relays PIR
motion sensors etc... The micro controller reads the voltage and current and calculates the
instantaneous power rating and if the power exceeds the limit an alarm will buzz after that if
the power doesnt drops below even after 5 minutes the relay will trip indicating overload.
How this works is by managing the total power in the lines. If all the homes use the power
allotted to them there will be enough power for all the home so there is enough power allotted
so there will not be a need for load shedding. The LCD displays shows real-time power rating

Innovation: Added an automatic home power management which will automatically turn off
lights and Fans if there is no one in the room in the room. It works using PIR motion sensor
which detects presence of human in the room and if there is no one in the room the
corresponding relay will turn off. The efficiency of the building is improved overall. If there
is no one in the on the room the electronic devices in the room will be turned off. It in turn
improvers the efficiency of home by 10 folds. This also reduces the monthly power bill.