GSM-Based Electricity Conservation Outlets (ECO) for Power Management and Monitoring System

The design, implementation and testing of an advanced version of a typical household outlet that aims to promote awareness among the users about the power consumption of different household appliances is presented in this paper. The whole project consists of the three (3) subsystems, the ECO power switches, the ECO power box and the ECO mobile application. The system operates by providing a wireless control and monitor functionalities on the two ECO power switches (outlets). The development of the system involved the design and implementation of the hardware (ECO power box) and the software (ECO mobile application) which manages data acquisition and transmission from the outlets. ECO power box is a control and monitoring panel that can be mounted at home using Wi-Fi technology. ECO mobile application, on the other hand, is an android-based application using GSM technology. The users can control the system manually and automatically using the timer-based capability. It can also monitor the power consumption in daily, weekly and monthly basis, in kilowatt-hour (kWh) and Peso format. Performance tests showed that the developed prototype can provide measurements with 99.92% accuracy and served all its functionalities with 100% reliability.