Design of IoT based smart compact energy meter for monitoring and controlling the usage of energy and power quality issues with demand side management for a commercial building

• Published in: Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks Vol. 26; p. 100454
• Main Authors: T., Karthick, S., Charles Raja, J., Jeslin Drusila Nesamalar, K., Chandrasekaran
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-06-2021
• Subjects: Commercial building automation; Commercial Building Energy Management System (CBEMS); Demand side management; Internet of Things (IoT); Power quality; Smart Compact Energy Meter (SCEM); Commercial Building Energy Management System (CBEMS); Internet of Things (IoT); Demand side management; Power quality; Smart Compact Energy Meter (SCEM); Commercial building automation
• ISSN: 2352-4677; 2352-4677
• DOI: 10.1016/j.segan.2021.100454

Internet of Things (IoTs) plays a vital role in energy sector which introduces a smart metering and monitoring system. The smart monitoring focuses on incorporating smart meters and control techniques which requires smart equipment control, bidirectional communication, integration of network and users. In this paper, a new Commercial Building Energy Management System (CBEMS) using IoT based Smart Compact Energy Meter (SCEM) is proposed to monitor and control the energy usage and power quality issues. In addition, Demand Side Management (DSM) for a commercial building in proposed using IoT. Here, low-voltage metering hardware uses Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) Machines (ARM) cortex and real-time operating system. The choice of ARM microprocessor aims at rendering a wide range of complex operations such as data acquisition, processing, disturbance detection and classification, consumption and data exchange which consequently requires optimization of the embedded software. The IoT based SCEMs with CBEMS is implemented in real time commercial building at M/s Quantanics Techserv Private Limited. Here, the load pattern of M/s Quantanics Techserv Private Limited is dynamically optimized using DSM after successfully integrating CBEMS. The operation of monitoring and controlling commercial appliances are examined and validated remotely using the mobile Blynk application. The proposed SCEMs analyzesthe power quality at low cost with high accuracy in detecting and classifying the disturbances. The proposed SCEM output values are compared with standard Elmeasure iM-8000 meter and the results are tabulated.
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•Designing Smart Compact Energy Meter (SCEM) with inbuilt IoT for monitoring energy consumption.•Proposing Commercial Building Energy Management System (CBEMS) for analyzing real time data.•Implementing Demand Side Management and classifying power quality disturbances.•Performance of SCEM is validated in a commercial building at M/s Quantanics Techserv Pvt. Ltd.•Recorded values of SCEM is compared with standard Elmeasure iM-8000 meter.