In our country India, the electricity bill arrive every two month. And every time it arrives all of us startled and the bill amount and promises to conserve the use of electricity. But again since there is no remainder on our usage, we lose track and overuse electricity up until the next bill arrival. Yes, there is an energy meter, but no-one takes the hassle to look at the meter reading and calculate the bill amount with the constantly varying electricity rates. The wastage in electricity can cause a lot of environmental problems due to more carbon emission for rising electricity requirements.
So we made a solution, that dynamically measures electricity usage, and notifies the user on a regular basis using an app in their phone. It also corrects the power factor of their home using a variable capacitor to increase energy efficiency. The app also allows the users to remotely control the appliances if the user has forgotten to turn off the iron box, or motor.
We are using python and flutter as the software tracks in the project and for the hardware part we use microcontrollers like esp 32, ADE7752, etc. and uses c to program them.
The challenges we ran into was calling the KSEB (our energy distributor) Api to automatically calculate the bill amount.
We are yet to receive an acknowledgement. Although we have received very good feedback on the project from our seniors and faculties.
We learnt a lot on electrical systems and coding.
For the future of our project, we are thinking on design it as a MCB replacement so that people can directly use it in their homes.
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