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My Thesis for the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Smart Metering Technologies for Energy Savings

My Thesis for the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

The document is composed in Greek, except for the abstract which is provided below. The devices mentioned throughout the document are the RaspberryPi based EmonPi and the Arduino based EmonTx from the Openenergymonitor open source organization.

The main points of the project could be summarized to:

Install and use the Openenergymonitor devices, EmonPi & EmonTx.
Set up a local database server
Redirect data collected from the Emon devices to the local database
Create a RESTful API in Python for the local database (implemented using Flask framework)
Create a minimal Air-Condition detection application generating Tweets when AC is detected (extra task)

Abstract

Energy conservation refers to reducing energy consumption through using less of a high-consuming device in everyday life. This action is of great importance for planet Earth in general as well as for every individual human looking to save wealth. However, applying energy conservation in everyday life does not necessarily mean holding back in services provided by such machines. The subject of this thesis project is the technical part of installing and expanding an energy monitoring system of a smaller scale than an actual comercial one, for educational purpose. The “lifecycle” of an IoT device system is presented, regarding the stages of collecting, saving and accessing data. Finally, experiments where conducted using the installed monitoring system and a prototype AC-detection application was developed, using their results.