IoT-BASED POWER MONITORING SYSTEMS TOWARDS HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS

Abstract

The fast expansion of urban areas in developing countries like Vietnam
significantly increments new modern buildings. Additionally, many intelligent
electrical appliances are being used in that built environment. Thus, total
energy demand is being raised tremendously. Understanding energy usage in
such buildings is essential to operate them efficiently. Recent Internet of
Things technologies makes the supervision of power usage more convenient
and possible to do remotely. In this work, we have developed a power
monitoring system to observe the energy consumption in a school building.
The system collects information at different locations in the buildings and
subsequently enables data analysis. The initial results help to understand the
current situation in an existing building, and thus would be helpful for the
operators to plan appropriate schemes to optimize the operation and then
obtain the most energy savings.