Design and Implementation of an IoT-Enabled Smart Plug Socket for Home Energy Management

This paper proposes an Internet of Thing (IoT)-enabled smart plug socket (SPS) to monitor and control energy consumption in a home/building energy management system. The device can wirelessly transmit data to a home energy management (HEM) controller. Additionally, the transmitted data can visualize, store, and analyze through the connected web server and smartphone. A customized android application is developed to interface the proposed SPS with the webserver and smartphone. According to experimental results, the proposed SPS can correctly interpret the power usage of wirelessly attached devices from anywhere without data loss. The proposed system has experimented with for 40-minute in the laboratory. The experiment shows an energy consumption of 0.124 kWh with an electricity bill of 0.697 RM. As a result, with the correct scheduling algorithm, the suggested smart socket framework can be utilized entirely in a home energy management system.