Low Cost Smart Energy Monitoring and Control System for Smart Buildings

Author(s):  
S. Sohaib ◽  
I. Sarwar ◽  
M.H. Iftikhar ◽  
A. Mahmood
Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 3643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abba ◽  
Namkusong ◽  
Lee ◽  
Crespo

Irrigation systems are becoming increasingly important, owing to the increase in human population, global warming, and food demand. This study aims to design a low-cost autonomous sensor interface to automate the monitoring and control of irrigation systems in remote locations, and to optimize water use for irrigation farming. An internet of things-based irrigation monitoring and control system, employing sensors and actuators, is designed to facilitate the autonomous supply of adequate water from a reservoir to domestic crops in a smart irrigation systems. System development lifecycle and waterfall model design methodologies have been employed in the development paradigm. The Proteus 8.5 design suite, Arduino integrated design environment, and embedded C programming language are commonly used to develop and implement a real working prototype. A pumping mechanism has been used to supply the water required by the soil. The prototype provides power supply, sensing, monitoring and control, and internet connectivity capabilities. Experimental and simulation results demonstrate the flexibility and practical applicability of the proposed system, and are of paramount importance, not only to farmers, but also for the expansion of economic activity. Furthermore, this system reduces the high level of supervision required to supply irrigation water, enabling remote monitoring and control.


Author(s):  
P. Valliappan ◽  
K. Jagiełło ◽  
S. J. Wilcox

The monitoring and control of combustion systems co-firing coal and biomass is a critical consideration when aiming to increase the proportion of biomass being combusted. This is because it is likely that the combustion will become increasingly unstable as the biomass proportion increases. In order to develop a flame monitoring and control system, flame signal data sets were collected from combustion measurements taken on a 500kW pilot scale combustion test facility. The sensors used were photodiodes with sensitivities in the UV, visible and IR wavelengths. The analysis of these data, identified flame features that can be related to operational parameters such as flame stability, excess air level, NOx and CO emissions. These features were then applied in the development of an intelligent flame monitoring and optimisation system for individual burners based on these low cost sensors. The testing of the monitoring and control system on a pilot scale burner and at full scale are described in this paper.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhai Peng ◽  
Kun Qian

Increasing in energy consumption, particularly with the ever-increasing growth and development of urban systems, has become a major concern in most countries. In this paper, the authors propose a cost-effective ZigBee-based building energy monitoring and control system (ZBEMCS), which is composed of a gateway, a base station, and sensors. Specifically, a new hardware platform for power sensor nodes is developed to perform both local/remote power parameter measurement and power on/off switching for electric appliances. The experimental results show that the ZBEMCS can easily monitor energy usage with a high level of accuracy. Two typical applications of ZBEMCS such as subentry metering and household metering of building energy are presented. The former includes lighting socket electricity, HVAC electricity, power electricity and special electricity. The latter includes household metering according to the campus’s main function zone and each college or department. Therefore, this system can be used for energy consumption monitoring, long-term energy conservation planning, and the development of automated energy conservation for building applications.


2009 ◽  
Vol 16-19 ◽  
pp. 1268-1272
Author(s):  
Jing Feng Shao ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Jia Li ◽  
Lan Shuang Qin

Aiming at the presently slow informationization development phenomenon in the drawing and coving workshop of textile enterprise, we analyze actual existing problems in production management and information development, use some theories and techniques to propose many solutions. According to the actual requirements of workshop, we implement a real-time monitoring and control system based on LAN. System’s structure and workflow, the key techniques within the system development are researched, the accuracy of production data is ensured by using numerical approximation theories. As proved by practice, the system's structure is simple, easy maintenance and low cost, meantime, furthermore, system can run stably, collect accurately production data, and its functions meet production control and information management of workshop needs.


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