Home Energy Management System
Sponsor: Progress Energy
Contact: Bob Rich, Director of Corporate & University Affairs(407) 882-2852 / Robert.Rich@ucf.edu

General information

The goals of this project are to reduce needless power usage in homes with a system that is effective at reducing power use and noninvasive to daily lifestyle in a relatively inexpensive and simple way. This was accomplished by creating a module that could read the power being used from an appliance, which wirelessly sends data to a computer where a user can monitor his or her energy usage. On the computer, readouts of how much energy currently being used, and projected monthly costs are presented. Here, the user can turn off select outlets to conserve energy.