EnerMon: IoT power monitoring system for smart environments

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Diogo Alexandre Lopes dos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20227
• topic: Internet of things; Power monitoring; Current transformer; Power consumption sensors; LoRa; Smart Cities; Internet das coisas; Monitorização de energia; Transformadores de corrente; Sensores de consumo elétrico; Cidades inteligentes; Engenharia informática; Energia; Consumo -- Consumption; Sensor; Desenho de sistemas

In this research work, we describe the development and subsequent validation of EnerMon a flexible, efficient, edge-computing based IoT LoRa System to monitor power consumption. This system provides real-time information and a descriptive analytics process to provide a ‘big picture’ about energy consumption over time and identify energetic waste. The solution is based on Arduinos, Current Transformer Sensors, Raspberry PI as an application server and LoRa communication alongside a description and information on what is to be expected of it. It describes the development process from the Design phase to the Validation phase with all the steps in between. Due to LoRa low debit communication, an edge computing approach was implemented to create a real-time monitoring process based on this technology. This solution, with the help of descriptive analysis, allows the creation of an energetic local footprint, using a low-cost developed solution for less than 80€ per three-phases monitoring device. It also allows for an easy installation without communication range and obstacles limitations making it easy to be used in a different set of situations from big complex building to smaller consumers, such as electric boilers, or simply to measure the energetic footprint of tourists in a small local tourist apartment.