Residence Energy Control System Based on Wireless Smart Socket

and IoT.

Conclution
excessive energy has been one of the key issues in our everyday lives, in fact energy control for some
appliances is an effective method to save energy at home, since it for prevents users from
consuming too much energy and to avoid excessive energy, RECoS is proposed.
Recos can minimize energy consumption of home appliances without deploying sensor and can be
applied to outdated appliances. the smart sockets measure connected devices’ current electricity
data, including voltage, current, power, etc. The smart socket will sent data to home gateway, and
then sent to cloud server(energy controller), user can access this data via user device with internet.
The RECoS has four control modes, including Peak-Time Control (PTC), Energy-Limit Control(ELC),
Automatic Control (AC), and User Control (UC). If the RECoS is now in its AC mode, the AC module
turns on/off the power of smart socket for particular time periods or energy limit. If the RECoS is
now in its UC mode, users can input control commands on/off smart socket’s via user device. If
Energy-limit control mode, the user sets an energy limit and then the ELC module will control a
smart socket’s energy limit, When the energy consumption of a day exceeds the quota smart socket
will turn off. If Peak-time control mode, when the total energy consumption of a house exceeds its
peak-time energy limit, lower priority sockets will be turned off.
RECoS experiment of water dispenser in office, that the water dispenser is only used between 8:00
and 18:00, show that up to 43.4% of energy can be reduced in a weekday. Other appliances can
also save some amounts of energy.
in the near future, the RECoS can reduce the energy consumption more intelligently. Furthermore,
security is an important to avoid hacker/cracker turning on/off the socket from remote