Design of a smart energy management, control and monitoring experimental system
Abstract
This paper presents a design of the experimental system to manage, control and monitor the low voltage networks . Voltage and current sensors are used to send the voltage and current signals to Arduino board and to measure all necessary electrical quantities. Then, they will be calculated and proceeded to export all outputs such as voltage, current, active power, reactive power, energy, etc. to LCD display, monitoring program screen to manage and monitor. The function of transfering and receiving the data via the wifi Internet is exploited to design softwares on a smartphone to manage, control and monitor the system operation. In addition, other functions including demand side management (DSM) and over/under voltage protection are also implemented into the system. The experimental results shown in this paper indicate that the system operates reliably and accurately.