FrugalWatt

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  usage of hardware (IoT)

Inspiration

Homeowners often misjudge how much energy each appliances use. They associated energy savings more with reducing the operating time of the device rather than replacing with a more efficient one.

Most consumers focuses on the price tags and habits but not the ongoing costs of the appliances.

The Indonesian goverment doesn’t provide subsidies for energy-efficient appliances. Instead, they use a Energy Saving Label Mark to identify appliances that met with the government’s energy standard. ( Reference: Zahra, F., & Astuti, Y. (2023).)

What it does

Web Application The app’s main function is to help homeowners monitor each electronic appliances energy consumption in real time help using users compare appliances to see which appliance is the most efficient in using energy.

Hardware To collect the appliances’ usage data and then send it to the web application. The hardware captures voltage, current and power of the appliance for further analysis.

How we built it

To make the web application, we use next.js To make the device we use ESP32 as our microcontroller, ACS712 and ZMPT101B sensors.

Challenges we ran into

Power Consumption Calculation, we need further research to implement this feature

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We sucessfully finished our project for this hackathon

What we learned

Teamwork is crucial for project realization

What's next for FrugalWatt

If possible we would like to research the initial problem deeper and come up with more ideas to maintain sustainability

Built With

• acs712
• ble
• esp32
• next.js
• shadcn
• supabase
• zmpt101b