ACTIVE POWER MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM USING

EMERGING POWER ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

Aim
The aim of this project is to active power management of electric power system
using emerging power electronics technology.

Introduction
A home energy monitoring and control system for monitoring the electrical energy usage
of a plurality of appliance loads. The system includes an energy monitor unit for each
appliance load which plugs into a standard AC wall outlet and monitors power
consumption and also has a power line transmitter/receiver for communicating with a
master control station. The master control station receives energy usage data from each of
the monitor units and stores the data for display in various user-selectable formats.

The proposed implementation of the project is shown in the block diagram. This
project focuses of active power management of electric power system using emerging
embedded technology. The implementation strategy is explained below.

Block diagram

Power:286 W
Mode :Normal

Embedded
Controller
Isolatio
n circuit

ADC

I/o

UART

Unit

230 V
AC Supply

Signal
condition
circuit

On/Off
Control
Unit
Voltage
Transforme
r

On/Off
Control
unit

Normal line

Restricted line

Current
Transforme
r

Sensing unit

Project Description

The block diagram of this project is shown in figure. The project uses the above
said hardware modules & the programs will be done using Embedded C. A high level C
compiler tool will be used to compile the Embedded C to the machine language, which
should be loaded in the flash memory of the Microcontroller.

Embedded Microcontroller is used for this system, which will control the overall
operation of the system. The appliances like fridge, bulb, fan etc., are connected to the
embedded microcontroller through the relay. We can switch on and off the appliances by
using switches. Each node is measuring the power, which is being consumed by the
appliance. The power is calculated with the help of current transformer. The CT, which
gives the current consumed by the appliances. Then the current is converted into voltage
by the V to I converter. The consumption of power is finding out by the program loaded
in embedded controller. In order to power saving we propose two type of house wiring
i.e. normal wiring and restricted wiring. Under normal mode no restricted we can use our
maximum power under restricted period the restricted power is activated in order to
manage the power across the Area. Under restricted period only we can use limited house
appliance when the usage power is beyond the limited power automatically the alarm to
alert the consumers in order to switch off the unused appliances with in ten minutes. If
consumer to failure switches off unused appliance with in a period, automatically whole
power went off. Power is display to LCD on its PC.