A wireless sensor network for residential electrical energy consumption measurement

Author

Levasseur, M.-A. ; Jomphe, S. ; Sicard, D. ; Dulipovici, A. ; Gagnon, Francois ; Gagnon, Ghyslain

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ecole de Technol. Super., Montréal, QC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

April 29 2012-May 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A wireless sensor network for residential electrical energy consumption measurements is presented. The system integrates wireless sensors to measure the energy consumption of individual electrical circuits in a breaker panel. Each sensor is battery-powered and transmits its data using the 802.15.4 wireless protocol to a communication hub which forwards the aggregated data to a server via Ethernet or Wi-Fi. The sensors use Hall-effect current sensors, a microcontroller, two button-cell batteries and a wireless transmitter. The sensors accuracy is better than 0.8 A on a range of 0-30 A.

Keywords

Hall effect transducers; circuit breakers; computerised instrumentation; electric sensing devices; energy consumption; energy measurement; microcontrollers; protocols; radio transmitters; radiotelemetry; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; 802.15.4 wireless protocol; Ethernet; Hall-effect current sensor; Wi-Fi; battery-powered sensor; communication hub; current 0 A to 30 A; data transmission; electrical circuit breaker panel; microcontroller; residential electrical energy consumption measurement; two button-cell battery; wireless sensor network; wireless transmitter; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Current measurement; Energy consumption; Monitoring; Sensor systems; Energy management; energy consumption; home energy monitoring; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1431-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2012.6334913

Filename

6334913