An educational platform for residential and industrial energy monitoring

This paper presents an energy monitoring platform for the home and industrial environments. The solution is based on industrial equipment such as PLCs, power measurement boards and I/O modules for load control. Additionally, the platform includes a Raspberry Pi-based Web component, where the measurement data is stored in a MySQL database and made available through the Web. The platform serves as an educational tool for Electrical Engineering students. Students can learn about hardware and software for energy consumption acquisition and measurement, as well as Web data-base communication, storage and browsing. They can further compare the behavior of different loads, in particular motors, projectors, heaters and lamps.