Remote Electricity Actuation and Monitoring mote

Author

Connell, S.O. ; Barton, J. ; Connell, E.O. ; Flynn, B.O. ; Popovici, E. ; Mathuna, S. C O ; Schoofs, A. ; Ruzzelli, A. ; Hare, G. M P O

Author_Institution

CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technol., Tyndall Nat. Inst., Cork, Ireland

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This work presents the design and evaluation of the REAM (Remote Electricity Actuation and Monitoring) node based around the modular Tyndall Mote platform. The REAM node enables the user to remotely actuate power to a mains power extension board while sampling the current, voltage, power and power factor of the attached load. The node contains a current transformer interfaced to an Energy Metering IC which continuously samples current and voltage. These values are periodically read from the part by a PIC24 microcontroller, which calculates the RMS current and voltage, power factor and overall power. The resultant values can then be queried wirelessly employing the Tyndall 802.15.4 compliant wireless module.

Keywords

current transformers; power factor; power system measurement; telemetry; PIC24 microcontroller; REAM node; Tyndall 802.15.4 compliant wireless module; current transformer; energy metering IC; modular Tyndall Mote platform; power extension board; power factor; remote electricity actuation and monitoring; Aerospace electronics; Monitoring; Plugs; Relays; Space heating; Switches; Wireless sensor networks; Actuation; Buildings; Energy; Monitoring; Network; Platform; Sensor; Wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops (DCOSS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0512-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0511-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DCOSS.2011.5982184

Filename

5982184