In this paper, Smart Real-Time Energy Monitoring System (EMS) has been built, incorporated and designed using concepts of IoT, which is a modern framework for controlling, observing, and dealing with the electrical burden frameworks. Today, this has become a need for present day mechanical activities. Not just that, Smart Energy Monitoring frameworks likewise give a way to check if every one of the heaps and meters are working as indicated by the normal usefulness and help in clearing a path for the smooth and blunder free working of the whole burden framework. To satisfy all the above models just as for making a whole structure that can yield every one of the normal outcomes, a UI has been made, joined with application improvement utilizing front-end and back-end alongside a functioning site so that constant checking should be possible to obtain every one of the normal logical instruments to screen the meters and loads at the back-end.
The entire project is based on a very clear approach. It is based on the principle that irrespective of the date and time of the day, real time monitoring shouldn’t stop and keep on getting refreshed as and when the data at the backend is refreshed. Also, the approach adopted for the entire process is based on communication between the frontend and the backend which has been set up with the intervention of APIs. Following this approach, APIs play an extremely crucial role in this project in a way that not only do they help in mapping the user command to the required pathway at the backend, but they also process the data through the intermediate channel connecting the two soft wares. Android Studio and Boot-Strap have been used in this project for the establishment of the app and website interface such that everything can be appropriately queried and translated towards the backend. For real time trend analysis, graphs that can display the trends of the average values of the number of values depending upon the user’s choice have been used.
In this project, fetching of the desired results and the establishment of a connection between the
software and the electrical domain has been established through the use of APIs. Following is the
workflow of how the whole connection has been established:
Once the communication channel has been set up using the APIs, the above tables lend their data
according to the demand of the user that comes through the frontend and paased onto the backend
after which this data, after getting processed by the rsepective method to which the function call has
been mapped, gets transferred onto the frontenf for display [
The entire design approach is based on the principle of collaborating the electrical domain with the software domain so that both can work synchronously and complement each other’s respective functionality. Following is a schematic briefing of the design approach: • Firstly, the database is set up according to the desired needs on a given server, which in this case is the XAMPP server. This is done using the XAMPP control panel and PHP Local Admin. • Secondly, the connection of the server is established with the Python code designed at the backend using appropriate libraries provided by Python editors.
Units Utilized/day = Number of Units at present – Number of units at starting of the day
The APIs are designed to set up a communication channel between the server and the code at the
frontend and the backend [
Following are the Python libraries that have been extensively deployed for the development of the
API set up, connection with XAMPP server and development of backend [
PyMySQL – It helps in connecting to MySQL. The exact way to get an instance of this class is to call connect() method.
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a conceptualized format usually used to transfer data as text that can be sent across a network.
Jsonify - Jsonify is a function in Flask's flask library. Json module establishes Jsonify to serialize data and wrap it in a Response object with the application or json mime-type.
Datetime - Datetime module comes built along with Python, so that there is no need to install it externally.
This project is extremely oriented towards establishing a channel that paves a way for soothing the
analytical measurement and study of electrical systems using software mechanisms and tools [
Today, smart energy monitoring system has become a necessity for modern industrial operations. Not only that, Smart Energy Monitoring systems also provide a means to check if all the loads and meters are working according to the expected functionality and help in paving a way for the smooth and error-free functioning of the entire load system.
Through Flask, APIs have been developed which extract the required data from the backend and pass it on to the frontend which has been developed using Boot-Strap. Based on the user requirement, the data can either be fetched from the backend side where the data is retrieved into the database using the provided server, through the application or the website and app, both of whose functionality ultimately leads to real-time monitoring and analyses.
Thus, the entire set-up not only aids in monitoring and analyses but also helps in drawing manipulative conclusions so as to maintain the harmonious and synchronous functionality of the system at the back-end, viz., the loads and the meters. All-in-all, through this endeavor, a pathway for energy conservation and maintenance gets a pathway that can be tiptoed upon and achieve milestones thereafter.
First of all, I would like to thank God for establishing me to do this project. I would like to take this opportunity to thank VIT University for encouraging and giving me this opportunity to do this project. I also take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt gratitude to respected Dean, Dr.Sivabalan S and respected HOD, Dr. Jacob Raglend I, to establish me to undertake this venture. The School of Electrical Engineering had supplied me with all the necessary guidance, motivation and means to furnish this project. I could never have proceeded with this venture had these means not been provided. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my project guide, Dr.Palanisamy K, for guiding me through every step of this project. Last, but not the least, I would like to thank my family and friends for their constant support and encouragement.