A low-cost non-intrusive appliance load monitoring system

The major problem in current day's scenario is the increasing power consumption and vastly decreasing energy resources, especially in developing countries like India. This calls for a dire need to properly monitor power usage and take necessary steps to optimize the usage. To achieve this goal, a proper system needs to be developed that can provide the energy requirements and usage at all levels and build automating systems that reduce the unnecessary usage and losses. Towards this goal, we try to design a architecture which generate models for power usage in real time and that requires the minimal amount to changes to existing structures.