POWER HOUSE AUTOMATION USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

Juhi Choubey, Priyank Sunhare

Abstract: The design is established for the automation of power house system. It shows how to remotely control and monitor power, automatically cut-off power on a single click using micro-controller based switches, wireless hardware module and web user interface during the shortage of power for power management or when bill is not paid. Web user interface shows complete information and power status of consumer stored in database; the data in a database is collected from remote module. To implement this, the wireless technologies used are IR module, zigbee module and server module through internet, PDA using graphical user interface and through smart phones. Static state relay for controlling power on/off outlets and sensors used to sense electric current being used by electric outlets. To measure power a measuring circuit senses the current and sends back a signal to the server module through zigbee the measured data is stored in embedded board and they are designed to become aware of any overload and to send a message to the circuit breaker for safety. PHP, JavaScript, html, CSS are used here to design a web user interface to provide a user-friendly operation of electric outlets. The proposed power outlet monitors the power consumption for the predetermined time and to completely cut-off power supply when the monitored power is below threshold. To efficiently manage the power outlets, the zigbee has several on board switches to wake up the power outlets and control them. The wireless communication module integrates several ac power sockets and a plug-in low power microcontroller performs power on/off switching of sockets. This system is used for power saving purpose and using wireless communication includes low cost, low data rate, self healing system and provides energy usage information to user on internet. The device works online so all the data are received in real time and the whole power system in home area can be managed in the remote area.

Keywords: Power house system, Switches, Relays, Wireless technology, HyperTerminal, Wamp Server, Net beans

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0310022