Introduction
Energy management is a systematic process of monitoring and optimizing the energy consumption of an organization or a building. The ECMS( Energy Management and Control System) using IoT is an innovative approach to manage and control energy consumption. The main aim of ECMS is to provide proper management of energy and increase the energy efficiency to maximum. The features of ECMS are smart management and control of energy, condition monitoring of critical load equipment, and real time remote monitoring of renewable energy production. This project with IoT involves sensors, energy meters and other IoT devices. The overview of this project would be to collect energy consumption, analyze energy usage patterns and automate energy usage based on real time data insights. The system focuses on implementation of an online monitoring system and control mechanism for critical electrical equipment of various users. We intend to install different sensors such as smart meters and temperature sensors at critical electrical equipment to send the real-time data via wireless system to the central control center for monitoring, controlling and data logging. The data will be used to display real-time critical variables such as energy loss, real-time energy production of PV systems, carbon emission reduction,etc. The IoT is used in this project for real time data insights, to enable remote monitoring and control, to facilitate automation of energy usage and optimize the energy consumption and cost savings.
Objectives
- Piloting of an IoT based EMCS for real time energy consumption, condition monitoring and control of the critical appliances such as various lab equipment, transformers, overhead lines, PV systems etc.
- Development of an accurate electrical forecasting software using state of the art machine learning algorithms for Integrated Nepal Power System & equip the energy data forecasting laboratory.
- Promote the public awareness of energy consumptions, capacity building training to the future customers and Engineers to bridge the current gap.
Project Impacts
- The industrial impact from this project is the opportunities for local software/hardware manufactured products for various sectors such as commercial buildings,healthcare, education,etc.
- The socio-economic impact from this project is that it improves the reliability and installation costs as it leads to a reduction in energy waste and lower electricity bills.
- Some other educational impacts are the establishment of an energy lab at university to provide a practical platform for research and development with publication of academic research findings.
Project outcome
The Energy Management and Control System (EMCS) using IoT is an innovative approach for remote monitoring of energy consumption around the Kathmandu University. The central campus of KU is the remote monitoring lab and multiple energy meters would be attached to the various buildings of different schools of the university. The system involves sensors, smart energy meters and other IoT devices. The energy meters are used as sensors that check the amount of energy consumed. These submeters are placed in each building of the schools in the university and are remotely monitored in central KU. All the energy consumption is collected into a database. We will analyze the usage pattern in order to reduce the usage and not supplying at minimum usage hour. The energy usage can also be automated in real time insights.
This system has great significance if we think of it. It provides accurate consumption and if used the prepaid service where the user has to pay for the units they need beforehand. EMCS opts for sustainable energy practices while managing the environmental concerns. It makes itself known as a reliable, accurate and feasible system that is beneficial to the provider as well as the consumer.
The system uses IoT for remote monitoring of real time data insights, control and facilitates automation of energy usage as well as reduce energy consumption and waste.
