Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network to Support the Intelligent Control of Efficient Energy Usage

Abstract

Energy saving has become a major concern for the developed society of our days. This paper presents a Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (WSAN) designed to provide support to an automatic intelligent system, based on the Internet of Things (IoT), which enables a responsible consumption of energy. The proposed overall system performs an efficient energetic management of devices, machines and processes, optimizing their operation to achieve a reduction in their overall energy usage at any given time. For this purpose, relevant data is collected from intelligent sensors, which are in-stalled at the required locations, as well as from the energy market through the Internet. This information is analysed to provide knowledge about energy utilization, and to improve efficiency. The system takes autonomous decisions automatically, based on the available information and the specific requirements in each case. The proposed system has been implanted and tested in a food factory. Results show a great optimization of energy efficiency and a substantial improvement on energy and costs savings.

Internet of Things (IoT) and the Energy Sector

“…In the literature there are also many studies aimed to illustrate the applications of the actuators within IoT. For instance, the research in [56] proposes a wireless sensor and actuator network to provide an IoT-based automatic intelligent system. Whereas, by optimizing the operation of devices and machines in the IoT, the proposed system achieves reduction in their overall energy consumption at a given time.…”

Engineering Project: The Method to Solve Practical Problems for the Monitoring and Control of Driver-Less Electric Transport Vehicles in the Underground Mines

“…As an effective train control system, the CBTC system is also remarkable in the underground environment. For above-ground transportation, Blanco, García and Morenas et al [88,89] all agreed that the CBTC system required to be used in conjunction with wide-area sensing networks such as Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (WSAN), but it is different in the underground mines because of the narrow environment of the underground mines. Therefore, to realize the monitoring and control of underground driver-less electric transport vehicles and the underground environment, it is a good choice to combine ZigBee WSN with the CBTC system.…”

Designing of Programmable Logic Controller for Intelligent Power Saving System

“…The wireless system includes two types of architectures, i.e., centralized and distributed. The system transmits information to the control center via the network to calculate the optimized data, thereby improving the uniformity of the lighting intensity and road surface illuminance distribution, as well as user satisfaction [9]. Based on the needs of street lighting, the external lighting effect is adjusted according to the implementation of internal and external sensors.…”