Electricity Consumption Monitoring and Wastage

Control

Gadget

Why this Project?

1. Lack of proper graphical user interface.

2. We should make methods of conservation of

energy lucrative, easily accessible and cheaper.

3. Provide service and make your end-customer

addictive not simply dependent.

Overview of Project1. Switching of Electrical Appliances, using

computer, keypad, remote control.

2. Among these three above mentioned control methods, customer can choose any one of it.

3. Electricity consumption monitoring facility.

4. Time controlled switching of appliances.

5. Manual override system available in case of emergency.

Layout

Features1. Password Controlled Application.

2. PORT Portability.

3. Hardware-Software Acknowledgement.

4. Highly Interactive and User Friendly.

5. Time controlled switching of appliances

6. Cost Monitoring

7. Faster Communication between Computer and Micro-Controller.

8. Better exploitation and synchronization of microprocessor and microcontroller.

9. Error Management

10. Manual Override.

Password Controlled Application

Our prototype comes with a feature ofpassword protection so that our customeris assured that no one other than him/hercan login or can gain unauthorized controlover his/her appliances.

Port Portability

At the time of installment of our prototype,customers are free to choose any USB Portwhich they wish. After the “Bafo Cable” isinstalled at particular USB Port then customersare bound to use that port only.

Hardware-Software Acknowledgement

As a measure to keep check over piracy, at thestarting of prototype a character is send tocontroller board which if controlleracknowledges and sends positive signal then oursoftware works otherwise it closes down simply.

Highly interactive and User Friendly

In this project our main concern was developinga prototype which is highly interactive and itsend users find it easy to operate. This task wasvery well accomplished by using “C#” in“Microsoft Visual Studio” environment. This IDEproved very useful and we never felt that we arenot regular Computer Science student.

Time Controlled Switching System

• According to our team this feature is one

of the most attractive one.

• Just select the appliance, enter the time

of operation, hit ‘ok’ and then forget

what you did just a moment before.

Cost Monitoring• In this prototype we have attached individual

timer to each of the appliance button so thatcustomer can monitor the time duration forwhich particular appliance was switched “ON”.

• In one of the form we take wattage rating ofeach appliance and cost of each unit as input.So as to calculate money spent on time totime basis.

Faster Communication

• Earlier we tried to develop a part of thisprototype using GUI module of Matlab but itdidn’t proved useful.

• C# proved fruitful because unlike Matlabwhich is huge software it doesn’t has toconvert various file and then establish aconnection.

Better utilization of Resources

• Micro-controller and Micro-processor works atdifferent processing speed.

• This difference in processing speed is wiselyhandled and maximum processing load is kepton computer(Micro-Processor) while Micro-Controller is mainly programmed to switchON/OFF the appliances depending upon datareceived from computer.