Design of Energy Monitoring System for Traditional Factories

Most traditional factories face intense problems of energy monitoring which result in lump costs, energy consumption and reduce profit margin. In this paper, we design an energy monitoring system to be installed in a traditional factory setting for proper energy management. The design is based on a low-cost Arduino micro controller, non-invasive split-core current transformer, relay module, and voltage transformer. The sensor data of the developed system indicated that the prototype can successfully record RMS voltage and current, real and apparent power, power factor, and energy with great accuracy. Through the proposed energy monitoring system, traditional factories have an overview of amount of energy they are consumed at a particular time which may reduce energy costs, reduce carbon emissions and environmental damage and increase the profit margin of the traditional factory.