Smart Home Power Management Based on Internet of Things and Smart Sensor Networks

摘要

The market for traditional home appliances is close to saturation. Companies must introduce innovative services to consumers by improving user experiences. The smart home is the next step beyond traditional home appliances. The smart socket designed in this study contains WeMos D1 and WiFi Arduino UNO chips and an ACS712 20 A range current sensor with the functions of collecting current data and wireless transmission. It can be connected to actual electrical appliances to test the collected data transmitted to the platform to be recorded, and use linear regression to predict the power consumption. To manage the power consumption, when the set power consumption is exceeded, a message will be sent to ask the user whether to turn off electrical appliances. We compared related smart socket products on the market and found that our proposed design does not need a bridge connection when using the smart socket and it will not increase the power consumption of other sockets. In addition, it has a power consumption statistics function and can be remotely set. Finally, it also provides a function for estimating power consumption. Thus, the smart socket of this study is a convenient means of enabling traditional home appliances to become components of a cloud platform for smart home power management.