DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE CONTROLLABLE POWER STRIP FOR HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT THROUGH WEB-SERVICES

Abstract

In the paper, we have presented development of power strip for management of home power to reduce standby power consumption. The developed power strip integrates many hardware components as AC power socket, XBee module have been used to make communications between central control unit and power strip. Raspberry pi card configured to play the role as a web server and coordinator to switch ON/OFF strip power and measure power consumption of plugged home appliances that collected from power sensor using XBee module. Also, software has been developed using HTML, PHP, Javascript and Phyton to design web page as platform compatible with any internet browser in any smart phone or personal computer. However, our development requires static IP number. We have evaluated in our design under different conditions. We have found the results are satisfactory

Keywords

• power strip,Xbee,Rapberry Pi,web server

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