Design and implementation of building energy monitoring system using wireless sensor networks

Abstract

This paper describes an application of Wireless Sensor Network in monitoring and controlling of energy in residential and commercial buildings. In this project, we design four different electronic Nodes including Sensor Node, Socket Node, Digital Power Meter Interface and Coordinator Node. In the application layer, user friendly software is designed to control and monitor all nodes in the wireless network through GPRS or LAN with using C# programming language. Each user can remotely connect to this network and control each input and output of nodes and in the automatic mode, all nodes can control electrical device without management from the coordinator node side. In this paper we have discussed various aspects of this project.

A competitive model for apartment complexes energy management with the aim of creating the infrastructure of smart city

“…Improving energy management in buildings 2. Data transmission between customers and DSO through of GPRS network with ability of remote control [5] 3. Create an integrated database in the DSO level for better analysis of energy consumption pattern 4.…”

“…Create an integrated database in the DSO level for better analysis of energy consumption pattern 4. Possibility to predict the status of power grid according to the information received from end user side in the electricity network [5] 5. Better maintenance services through analysis of working pattern of equipment 6.…”

“…Due to existence of multiple device nodes in each residential tower and increase network traffic, the communication flow is not peer to peer therefore a local concentrator is employed in each tower. In the concentrator unit, all received data from each node is decoded and then will be sent to ACCU [5]. The proposed hardware module will be installed at critical points of buildings namely: water pumps room, elevator control room, power supply route lighting of public places and etc.…”