Abstract:

This project is a fully funded project by Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) Asia which aims to develop a cloud and mobile based application to capture the electricity consumption data for every area of a typical Indonesian household without having to modify the electricity meter from PLN (National Energy Company). In Indonesia, people cannot track the electricity home use since PLN bills only display total price. Currently, people cannot control devices (turn on/off) from outside of the house, which if possible, will lead to electricity savings. Interviews, literature research and experiments have been conducted to develop the prototype of the system. For the hardware; Arduino Board and Current Transformator are used to capture the data about electricity consumption in every room in the house. Meanwhile, an online application is designed using PHP in cloud platform. After receiving the data, it will be sent to the cloud server so that the user can see the report in the form of chart and graph for each room through a laptop or computer with Internet access. Switching on and switching off a lamp in the house can also be controlled through either Android mobile application or computer. This feature is expected to give a smarter way for the users to monitor and control their electricity consumption at home. The software has been tested in a small prototype house, which consists of 1 or 2 rooms that may have one lamp, TV, AC, and desktop computer or anything similar to it.