| dc.description.abstract | The electricity distributed to any
house, school, or industries comes from
either Ceylon Electricity Board or Lanka
Electricity Company (Pvt.) Ltd. Electricity is
bought from LECO or CEB by its consumers
under various criteria decided and defined
by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri
Lanka. These tariffs shall determine the
cost to be paid for electricity by each
consumer. Usually, due to faults within the
consumer’s electrical system within his or
her property, the cost they have to pay is
not actually the number of units that they
consumed. This could be due to a faulty
meter or even losses within the factory due
to its machines. Power quality decreases
due to many faults like this and also due to
inductance. Therefore, they will have to pay
for more than the units they actually have
consumed. To overcome this, we could
constantly monitor the system and bring
about necessary solutions to fix it as soon
as possible. However, doing this manually
is tiring and requires the workers to
constantly keep measuring the necessary
parameters like current, voltage, power,
frequency, and power factor. In almost all
factories some machines will still be
running idle when they actually not used.
This project aims to develop an online
energy monitoring system that can read
data from the supply to factories and also
machines and then display them on online
application. This will also have the ability to
notify on a phone or another app to remind
someone to switch off or on any machine.
Also, the project aims on carrying out a case
study to have a thorough understanding of
the factory Randhi International (Pvt.) Ltd.,
to help in deciding on what solution should
be put forth to decrease power loss in any
factory the user considers. These
guidelines are presented as a case study
and will be made into a generalized guide. | en_US |
