Smart Gujarat Hackathon 2017
Challenge Statement

 

Name of the Department:  Energy & Petroleum Department - GUVNL

 

Challenge Title

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Stratification of energy usage and energy conservation.

Challenge Description with context

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Smart home- A smart house, is a home that incorporates advanced automation systems to provide the inhabitants with sophisticated monitoring and control over the building's functions. For example a smart home may control lighting, temperature, multi-media, security, window and door operations, as well as many other functions.

Generally the consumer doesn’t know which electrical equipment in his/her house consuming how much energy and how to control the consumption and reduce the bill.

What kind of smart home solution can be developed to help consumers to understand their daily/weekly electricity usage and empower them to manage it more efficiently? What kind of apps and smart customer interfaces could help customer to visualise their electricity usage more easily and simply?

At present customer is only able to know the energy bill by  the end of month/two month, and if electricity bill is higher than the average and meter is accurate then consumer didn’t know due to which reason electricity bill came higher. The electricity available at the click of switch but home owner (customer) have no idea how much electricity each appliances uses and how they can manage them to save on cost.

Most consumers didn’t be familiar with of the consumption pattern of their each equipment and which Equipment plays major role in their electricity bill and their equipments efficiency and performance. If consumer get to know their equipments daily/weekly/monthly consumption pattern then he can came to know the efficiency of equipment and can do planning maintenance of it. Using data analytics and smart devices is it possible to inform to home owner about electricity usage of their appliances.

 

 

What Exact Problem is being Solved?

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·         Communications network that connects the key electrical appliances and services, and allows them to be remotely controlled, monitored or accessed.

·        Smart sensors and smart switches to measure and control the electric power.

Users

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The consumers of the utilities.

Expected Outcomes

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Impact

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The consumers of electric distribution utility.