Control and Monitoring of Household Load Electricity Consumption based on Antares Platforms

The development of technology is currently very rapid along with the increasing variety of household electronic products. Sometimes in a household there are several types of electronic equipment and are used simultaneously without paying attention to the consumption of electrical energy, this can cause frequent power outages due to the MCB trip. To determine the amount of electrical energy consumption, measurements are made; measuring electrical energy consumption of household electronic equipment is a very important process of managing electrical energy so that it can easily perform efficiently. The purpose of this research is to design control and monitoring devices in real-time that can control and monitor the consumption of electric energy based on microcontrollers and smartphones. This prototype will display the real-time value of electrical energy consumption (kWh), active power (Watt), current (A), voltage (V), power factor, and frequency, which can be accessed via the internet network. This prototype consists of four parts, namely sensors, processors, actuators, and networks. PZEM004t is a current and voltage sensor, the processor used is Wemos D1 R1, which processes the sensor value, the relay acts as an actuator that functions to disconnect and connect currents, the network consists of the ESP8266, which has been embedded in the microcontroller for communication to the database server. This application was built using block codes provided by MIT App Inventor and the ANTARES platform made by PT. Telkom Indonesia, as a storage area. The result is a prototype that can control and monitor the consumption of electrical energy in household electronic devices in real-time. The measurement results of the PZEM004t sensor mean the percentage error for the voltage parameter is 1.56% and the current parameter is 4.61% with a digital clamp meter comparison. Successfully calculate the estimated cost of electrical energy consumption for household electronic devices.