Design and Development of Smart Socket - Energy monitoring and Controlling

We propose in this paper a technology that can perform remote control and monitoring of electrical appliances on Zigbee wireless network. To do this, a Smart power socket (SPS) module that is able to control and monitoring the power of electricity is realized in this research. ZigBee wireless smart loading monitoring and control system uses visualized program language to develop graphic control software, and the control module of this system which applied the Advanced RISC Machine (ARM7) single chip microcontroller and embedded ZigBee wireless integrated circuit (IC). In other to save energy, several countries recently made laws related to standby power consumption.To success this exertion, we should consider not only power reduction of consumer electronics itself but also efficient automatic control in networked home environment. This system can effectively solve the insufficiency problem of power supply while such problem happened in the electricity utility side and decrease peak power generation simultaneously in order to achieve the goal of energy conservation and carbon reduction. A typical automatic standby power cut-off outlet has a waiting time before cutting off the electric power. It consumes standby power during that time.. The integration of ZigBee smart power socket control module and digital meter, in the other hand, can also monitor and control the electricity consumption of household appliances and manage standby power as well.It effectively reduces the power consumption of peak hours and saves the cost of power rate for residential users and commercial clients.The proposed architecture has been shown to be very convenient and useful for remote control and monitoring of electrical appliances, and hence can facilitate the life of human beings.