The study on consumption of household appliances with SCADA platform

The rapid growth in consumption of residential sectors has increased concern towards limited energy resources and high electricity pricing. The recent trend has occurred for improvement in energy efficiency through Demand Side Management (DSM) in which intelligent monitoring systems plays a significant role to optimize energy use. In this paper, the consumption of household electrical appliances was studied using centralized Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) with detailed analysis of power consumption. The consumption in residential sector has been increased to a very great extent due to continuous growth in population. A residential load mostly operates at specific time so consumption can be reduced by taking correct measurement feedback from intelligent monitoring system to the consumers to adjust peak and non-peak power usage. The deployment of SCADA system has benefits of more reliable data acquisition system, centralize server, powerful database and informative graphical user interface which not only provide real time data of consumption of each appliance but also create an opportunity to manage power consumption during high demand. The accurate consumption data can be useful to get future demand requirement; this essentially brings economic benefit to residential consumers and to optimize available appliances.