Energy management system and interactive functions of smart plug for smart home

摘要

Intelligent electronic equipment and automation network is the brain of high-technology energy management systems in the critical role of smart homes dominance. The smart home is a technology integration for greater comfort, autonomy, reduced cost, and energy saving as well. These services can be provided to homeowners for managing their home appliances locally or remotely and consequently allow them to automate intelligently and responsibly their consumption through an individual or collective control systems. In this study, some smart plugs with different features are analysed and one of them tested on typical household appliances. This article proposes to collect data with wireless technology with the aim to extract pertinent smart data for energy management system. This smart data allows quantifying the three kinds of load: intermittent load, phantom load and continuous load. Phantom load is a waste power that is one of the unnoticed power of each appliance while connected or disconnected to the main. Intermittent load and continuous load take into consideration the power and using time of home appliances. By using this classification, smart data will be defined to represent the different loads but also to reduce the communication of wireless sensor network in a smart home.