Group Members:

• Chris Diller
• Arman Murat
• Christian Aranha
• Kurt Riecken

Project Description:

The concept of our project was to design a home energy management system that would be beneficial to the homeowner by providing them with important information regarding the energy consumption of their individual household appliances.  Our power strip modules were designed with a single duplex receptacle to allow for the connection of up to two home appliances.  These power strip modules include circuits that will monitor the instantaneous voltage and current applied to the individual appliances. By calculating the delay between the voltage and the current we were able to determine the phase angle of the circuit and therefore were able to calculate real and apparent power of the appliances.  This information is then sent back to a controller wirelessly that is then further processed to determine things such as instantaneous power consumption, daily power consumption, and total power consumption since last power bill.  The controller then communicates with a LCD touch screen monitor that gives the user access to the system.

Links:

• Initial Project Description

• Project Paper from EEL 4914

• CDR 4915

• Conference Paper

• Final CDR

• Final Documentation EEL4915

• Schematics & Pictures