1. H.O.M.E. Home Organization and Monitoring of Energy
Shelby Esterlein Ripal Patel
Katherine Overend Jacob Self

2. Problem 1) Decrease Energy Usage v. Generating More Energy
2) Distributive Generation & Need for Tracking Power Flow
3) Voltage Dipping/Support

3. Solution
Why pay for electricity if you don’t need it? Use less  pay less
1) Real-Time Data Collection & Analysis:
Real-time energy cost tracking
Consumption Alert System (residential/commercial/utility)
2) Bidirectional Metering and Controls
Utility requirement for DER systems
Safety controls & automation
3) Power Factor Correction
Differentiation between real and reactive power
Measure reactive power, harmonics, etc.

4. HOME Project Description
“Micro-substation” on the consumption side
Connects to user circuit breakers
Real-time current & voltage tracking
Real Power
Reactive Power
Energy & Cost
Harmonics
Provide data security to customer via encryption
Disaggregated at circuit breaker level

5. HOME Project Description

6. HOME Project Description
Signal
Sensing Circuit
SQLite

7. University Impact Dr. Kimball’s research Solar Village:
Power data collection
Solar Village:
Bidirectional metering & controls
Voltage optimization based on production measurements from each source

8. Programming & Security
Personal Impacts
Educational benefits in Smart grid for future career goals
Explore unfamiliar fields of technology
Increase knowledge from basic coursework
Test limits with nearly unlimited project scope
Ambition, challenge, repeat
Power
Programming & Security
H.O.M.E. Team
Electronics
Signal Processing

9. Future Work Open API for customers Smart cap bank for power correction
Capability of customization for personal use
Smart cap bank for power correction
Alert & control systems for devices in a home
Load identification
Component efficiency tracking and historical data
2-way metering
Etc.

10. Marketing Capabilities
Historical Data & Trends Save Money
Residential
Utilities
Commercial Office Buildings
Industrial/
Manufacturing

11. HOME Measures real-time consumption data
Flexible Device: Commercial, Industrial, Residential
Can be used as trouble-shooting tool
Utilities generate/purchase power more effectively
Securely store & analyze data
Full scale integrated energy monitoring system.

12. Questions?
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