Group 5: Smart Meter: SIVIS

Name	Student ID
Feruzjon Muyassarov	0524488
Krishna Teja Vaddepalli	0528996
Maliha Rahman Mishi	0528815

Problem

Energy from renewable sources not being utilized properly

Best time for running appliances is not known

Wastage of energy

No clear monitoring available at individual appliance level

Concept

SIVIS is a smart meter which can solve the problems mentioned above. It can redirect all the extra energy to the power grid, suggests user to run the appliance when renewable energy is abundant, give statistics of energy usage at appliance level and also provide user with patterns of his/her energy usage. This also contacts different services like weather station, calendar of the owner and customizes some of its functions.

Motivation

No such use of renewable energy

User does not know what is the energy being used by individual appliance

User has no way to determine when can he run appliances so that they run on renewable energy

User doesn’t get reports on the renewable energy usage

Features

Uses Renewable Energy and power grid

Supplies extra energy to power grid

Energy saving

Energy supply

Reduces CO2 emission

Flexibility of control

Suggestion on equipment usage

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Architecture

Sustainability

Renewable energy would be fully consumed i.e, no wastage of renewable energy

System checks weather updates and runs the appliances when the renewable energy is available to run the appliance

No storage of energy in batteries giving no scope for pollution when batteries are to be disposed

Extra energy being supplied to power grids would reduce the necessity of energy from non-renewable sources of energy

Reports of energy consumption is provided to user which can bring a change in user behavior

KNX-Communication protocol

KNX - is a system of sensors and actuators joined together by a “bus cable”.

Administered by the KNX Association;

339 members/manufacturers from 37 countries;

KNX devices are installed, programmed and parameterised by fully qualified system integrators;

Accommodate wide range of functions;

KNX based products are compatible with products from all manufactures;

Supports all communication including Powerline (PL), Radio Frequency (RF), IP/Ethernet/WLAN

System (power supplies, programming interfaces) and end devices (sensors and actuators);

Disadvantages

Smart Meter: SIVIS can be expensive (now).

Time consuming in terms of generation and load of renewable energy.

Maintaining grid reliability requires precise synchronization of voltage and current.