Smart House Electricity Monitoring Based on
Raspberry Pi
Ika Monica Telaumbanua, Christopher Mika Andrew
Siahaan, Richad Harianja
Faculty of Informatics and Electrical Engineering
Institut Teknologi Del, Laguboti, Toba Samosir, Sumatera
Utara, Indonesia
Email : info@del.ac.id
Abstrak---Currently, the number of household appliances that
require electrical resources makes the use of electricity is
increasing. But in the usage the user is often excessive and can’t
control it well. For example, users who forget or are lazy to turn
off electronic devices manually while in the house or leave
home. Excessive use of electricity is very detrimental to the user
both in terms of electrical power and costs incurred.
Electrical equipment monitoring system automatically
becomes the best solution to overcome the problem of excessive
electricity usage. In this research, a monitoring system for the
use of electrical appliances is automatically called Smart House
Electricity Monitoring Based on Raspberry Pi which aims to
monitor and control the use of electrical equipment in the house.
This research is useful for users who handle the use of electricity
in excessive and inappropriate.
The method of monitoring the use of electricity used in this
study is to detect the power consumed electrical devices using
Current Transformer sensor connected to Arduino then Arduino
will send the power Raspberry Pi to be stored and processed.
Raspberry Pi will send the processed data to the database and
will be displayed on a website based application built using the
Codeigniter framework to enable users to easily monitor the
electrical devices.
In this final project will be discussed how to implement
Smart House Electricity Monitoring Based on Raspberry Pi
where user can use home electric appliances efficiently and
appropriately through website application which can be accessed
through laptop or smartphone. Keywords: Current Sensor
Transformer, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Relay and Codeigniter
Keywords— Sensor Current Transformer, Arduino, Raspberry
Pi, Relay;
I. INTRODUCTION
Electricity is a very important component in helping every
work of humanity, ranging from lighting to setting the
temperature of the room and so forth. But in its use is often
inefficient, many people are letting an electric device turn on
when not in use. For example forget to turn off all lights or other
devices while away from home. This of course leads to waste in
the use of electrical power.
Research that has been done to control electrical appliances
basically just turning off and turning on electrical appliances
only, no other features [1]. In this study the author made a
prototype home system based on Raspberry Pi smart user
interface android that will perform data communication through
web service that is Smart House Electricity Monitoring based on
Raspberry Pi. Smart home or smart home is a programmable
system and can work with the help of a computer to integrate
and control a device or home appliance automatically and
efficiently which aims to facilitate energy saving, comfort and
so on [2]. Smart Home can be used to control almost all
equipment and equipment in the home, from lighting
arrangements to household appliances, whose commands can be
done using sound, infra red light, or remote control.
Pre-built home electrical appliances control systems such as
home electrical appliance control systems using short message
media (SMS), or using android bluetooth or home web based
home power control systems do not provide complete data for
users that can make the user know how much power electricity
that has been used [3]. With Smart House Electricity Monitoring
based on Raspberry Pi the problem will be solved. This system
helps users in monitoring the use of power consumed power
tools in the house.
II. TOOLS & MATERIALS
a. Raspberry Pi
Raspberry pi is a small computer board working on Linux
OS that is connected with computer, monitor, keyboard, and
mouse. Raspberry Pi can be applied to electronic structure and
network programming jobs, can also function as personal
computer and Apache Webserver. Raspberry Pi that has no
analog input. For that it must use an external analog-to-digital
converter (ADC). In aquarium replacement and the automatic
feeder will use Raspberry pi as the activity controller of the
activity.
b. Arduino
Arduino is an open-source microcontroller that is
compatible with any platform currently available. Arduino can
connect to a computer via Universal Serial Bus (USB) and
connect with both analog signals and digital signals. The
Arduino is a microcontroller platform, mounted on a board that
connects easily to most computers. This allows the user to
program the onboard chip, Atmega to do various things with the
programming language, in a program called sketch.
c. LM358
The LM358 is a dual operational amplifiers (OpAmps)
consisting of two high-gain operational amplifiers with
independent frequency compensators [4]. The LM358 is
designed to operate from a single supply with a wide voltage
range for full flexibility in applying electronics circuit design.
The LM358 can also use a separate power supply during the
voltage difference between the two power supplies between 3V
and 32V and Vcc at least 1.5 volts higher than the common-
mode voltage input. The pull of the low supply current drain is
independent of the magnitude of the power supply voltage.

d. Sensor Current Transformer
Current transformer (CT) or current transformer is a tool
used to measure the amount of current on a large-scale primary
power (TET, TT and TM) electric installation by transforming
large quantities of current into small current quantities so as to
make measurements or metering and accurately and precisely
determining tool boundaries [5]. The measurement current
transformer for metering has a high accuracy in the working
area (rated region) of 5% - 120% of its nominal current
depending on its class and relatively low saturation level
compared to the current transformer for protection. While the
current transformer for protection, has a high accuracy in the
event of interference where the current flowing several times
from the rated current and saturation level is high enough. The
CT sensor will be wrapped around a cable at the positive pole to
be able to measure the amount of electric current flowing
through the cable.
e. Software Aplikasi (Web Aplikasi)
A website is a collection of pages displaying a wide range
of text, data, still or moving images, animation, sound, video or
combination data of all, whether static or dynamic, forming an
interconnected set [6]. A website is usually placed at least on a
web server that can be accessed through a network such as the
Internet, or a local area network (LAN) through an Internet
address identified as a URL.
III. CONCEPT DIAGRAM
Figure 1. Full design diagram of the system.
IV. SYSTEM OVERVIEW
In Figure 4 is shown a general overview of the built
system. The electrical devices used are lights and extensions.
The power consumption of such electrical devices is
measured by the CT Sensor. The relay is used to disconnect
or connect the electrical current when receiving a signal from
Raspberry pi. Relay can work because of a coil that contains
iron and if the coil is electrified then the coil becomes a
magnet that pulls the plate so that the flow of electricity.
CT sensor serves as a tool to measure the electrical
current consumed from each electrical device that is
connected directly with the CT sensor by clamping. Lm358
serves as a ground provider for CT Sensors. CT sensor only
has cable. The first cable serves to provide power for CT
Sensors and other cables serve to provide data transmission
on Arduino UNO via analogs contained on the Arduino UNO
board. The power supply will be sent to Arduino UNO.
Arduino UNO serves to receive data in the form of electric
current power from the CT sensor. Data received by Arduino
UNO will be sent to Raspberry Pi for further data is stored
and processed in Raspberry Pi operating system. Data from
the Arduino UNO can be sent to Raspberry Pi by using a USB
cable as a serial communication or communication link
between Raspberry Pi and Arduino. The power data obtained
by Arduino is electric current power in Ampere units that
have been calculated into KW (KiloWatt) units which can
only be seen when the user accesses the monitoring
application.
Raspberry pi plays a role in processing data transmitted
by CT Sensors to be further displayed into a website-based
monitoring application. Next Raspberry pi sends data to the
database for display on the application based website. The
built application has one way authenticaton as a process to
determine whether the user who wants to enter into the
system is a valid user or not. This application is only used by
two users who act as admin and client.
The current authentication process generally only uses a
username and password. When the user successfully logs in
the user can see the dashboard application and use the
application to monitor and control the use of electrical power
in the home. If the user logs into this system then
automatically logs the system to log / history user to know
whenever the application is used which is done on the system
used. The application is built with the purpose of facilitating
the user in controlling the use of electricity in the home.
V. Flow Chart Diagram
Figure 2. Flowchart controls the tool automatically
Figure 2 shows the workings of the system in controlling
electric current devices automatically using Raspberry Pi and
Relay. Raspberry Pi serves to turn on the light automatically
and Relay can disconnect the electric current or open the flow
of electric current on each device when getting the signal /
command from Raspberry Pi. When the device is turned on
automatically, the CT sensor measures the electrical power
used on each device that uses electric power. Power obtained
Sensor CT will be sent to Arduino and will be sent again to
Raspberry Pi. The data is compared to the power limit
specified by the user on the web application. When the power
has exceeded the power consumption limit set then Raspberry
pi will send a signal to the Relay to turn off devices that use
excessive power. The disabled device will come back to life
after 30 seconds. Raspberry Pi will check the power of the
device, if the power no longer exceeds the limit then the
device will remain alive but if the power still exceeds the
specified limit then the device will turn off again. When the
power does not exceed the specified power limit then the data
will be accommodated in an array and will be entered into the
database for subsequent display in the website-based
monitoring application.

VI. EXPERIMENTAL AND RESULTS Figure 4. Dashboard AppsHome for client

The model of the developed application is expected to have

a good impact on the use of electricity in the home.

Figure 5. Dashboard AppsHome for admin

Dashboard is a layer that appears after the user login by

entering a valid username and password. There are two
dashboard views ie dashboard for admin and dashboard for
client.
In the sidebar dashboard for admin there are Users menu,
Details Room, Log Activity, User Log, Record and Report.
While on the sidebar dashboard for the client there is only one
menu that is the Details Room menu. The dashboard displays a
graph of electric power usage in one day in KiloWatt (KW). At
Figure 3. Table Results CT Sensor Testing Scenario
the top of the dashboard there are four menus namely details
room, new user, log activity and user log. Menu details room is
a menu that contains details about the device used in the room,
on this menu the user can control the device in every room. The
New User menu is a menu to add new users. Users who can
access this app can amount to more than one person. Menu
Activity is a menu that contains a note about the time of use of
the device while the User Log menu is a menu to view user data.
Admin can access these four menus but the client can only
access the Details Room menu.
 Another menu contained in the Details Room layer is View
Details, this menu contains the location of each device used by
the user. In the prototype, the device used as many as seven ie 4
lights and 3 extensions. View Menu Details can be seen in
Figure 9.

Figure 6. Layer Log User

The User Log Layer contains data about the user ie ID,
email, name, permissions and description of when the user is
actively using the application. The User Log Layer is only
accessible by the admin. Shown the User Log layer can be seen
in Figure 6.
Figure 9. Menu View Details

The first test is successfully done, all CT Sensors can

retrieve data from any devices that use electric current. The
data in the form of electrical power is measured every
second. If the CT sensor is clipped on the device cable but
the device is not turned on, then the device consumes power
is still zero (no power is consumed). Data is displayed
through the python program and runs in console using
Raspberry Pi. The data shown is the result of calculations
Figure 7. Layer Details Room from the data obtained from the CT Sensor. The console
shows the device name, status and power consumed. Figure
10 shows the power measurement results consumed by the
Layer details room displays a description of the device used device for 15 minutes.
inside the house. Item description includes device name, power
limit, status, action and control. Layer Details Room can be
accessed by admin and client. In the action table, admins can
edit the device in case of changes or erase the device if it is no
longer used by the client. In the control table, the client can turn
the device on or off simply by pressing the on button or green
button to power the device and the off button or red button to
turn off the device. Display Layer Details Room can be seen in
Figure 7.
In the Room Details layer there is also a menu that can turn
on or off all devices at the same time the On all to turn on all
devices or Off all to turn off all devices. In addition, there is an
add new menu that is useful to add new devices and their full
description. In Add New menu, admin must fill in provided box Figure 10. Testting for 15 minutes
in the form of device name, power limit and description. Add
New menu on the Details Room layer can be seen in Figure 8. The results of power measurements consumed by the device
for 60 minutes are shown in Figure 11. In the figure it can be
seen that the power consumed for 60 minutes totaled more than
the data consumed for 15 minutes and 30 minutes.

Figure 8. Menu Item Management

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