Supervision, monitoring and control of home appliances through power line communication

Abstract

This paper shows the design and development of a module named: Supervision and Control of Charge “SCC“, which conforms a home energy management system prototype. This module has internal aspects such as the physical structure of the device, which has to do with monitoring, supervising and controlling loads. Likewise, the software of the proposal is shown, it is related to the capture of energy measurement basic parameters. It involves information and communication technologies in order to take energy measures in the appliances, with the objective of transmitting information to a central system through power line communication so it can be processed in three different ways: manual, semiautomatic and automatic, which work with decision algorithms. After developing operation tests, the average response time was 1s in manual mode and 2s in automatic and semiautomatic mode. Besides, with the semiautomatic mode operation during early morning hours, savings of approximately 240,12 kWh/year are achieved per user. The prototype was designed taking into account the use of standard communication protocols in the context of Internet of things.