Energy efficient IoT home monitoring and automation system

Abstract

Saudi Arabia has encountered a great economic growth in oil and gas resources in the past decades, and if domestic consumption rates continue in their current pathways, it is expected that there will be a contraction in oil exports, which will negatively affect Saudi Arabia's ability in the future to maintain the current high levels of spending in both investment and consumption. Residential consumption in Saudi Arabia accounts for 51% of total electricity sold in 2012. Therefore, targeting private residencies will reduce both the amount of fuel needed to generate electricity and the amount of greenhouse gases. This project aims to build a smart home system. This system will monitor and analyze the energy consumption, utilize lights when needed, program the temperature by keeping your house warmer than normal when you are away and setting the temperature as high as comfortable if needed. Then display the information to improve customer awareness by using colored LEDs to alert customers to different parameters, and turn their loads on and off based on the cost of electricity use as well as enable consumers to control some of their home appliances usage through a mobile application to reduce electricity usage and minimize energy waste.