Overview / Usage

For the past decades, we have seen technology evolved rapidly and how significantly impacts the world and human daily life. Most innovations and advancements of technologies use electricity to operate especially when most of the things need to be done remotely. In this challenging phase of the pandemic, most people need to work from home, and electricity is crucial to PC charging and the Wi-Fi network.

Malaysia has also been highlighted by an increase in electricity bills during the early stage of the pandemic. To address this issue, the proposal is to install an electrical current sensor to read the amount of electrical current used by the device, such as air conditioner, lamp, fan and a number of others.

Electrical current data that has been used is then stored on the Open Visual Cloud and linked to the Power BI application. The Power BI application processes the data and displays the results through power-saving warning notifications. The system architecture uses 2-way communication, which is monitors the home, and also controls the use of electricity remotely. When electricity usage exceeds the limit, the power saving mode uses the PIR sensor and the LDR sensor to monitor the state of the house. The sensor data will then be used by the Intel FPGA and Wi-Fi module to automatically switch off or turn on household devices via the relay when the power saving mode is switched on. This implementation is expected to have additional benefits besides saving electricity resources, it is also expected to reduce the cost of energy use at home.

Methodology / Approach

Methodology and Architecture:-

1. Architecture: The model is using Intel FPGA is well supported by both ESP 8266 model and ACS712 Current sensor.
2. Back-end Framework: Power BI.
3. Dataset: Electrical current usage by user usage over the month.
4. Model Optimization on PC/Laptop or any other edge device other than Smartphone is being carried out by Intel Distribution of the Intel FPGA

Technologies Used

Electrical current data that has been used is then stored on the Open Visual Cloud and linked to the Power BI application. The Power BI application processes the data and displays the results through power-saving warning notifications. When electricity usage exceeds the limit, the power saving mode uses the PIR sensor and the LDR sensor to monitor the state of the house. The sensor data will then be used by the Intel FPGA board and Wi-Fi module to automatically switch off or turn on household devices via the relay when the power saving mode is switched on.

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