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Chapter 1
This feeds into the discourse about a power shortage of another kind the allegedly
waning power of President Aquino. Last year there were controversies about pork barrel funding
through legislative-executive collaboration, and a flexible executive budgetary process
What we see today in the Philippines is more a country that has come to confront its
internal demons than an emerging market firmly placed on an inexorable tiger road. Nothing
underscores this complex picture more than the latest uproar over an alleged collusion among
power-generating companies to introduce a further hike in electricity prices. To put things into
perspective, the Philippines already has Asia's most expensive electricity rates, even higher than
post-Fukushima Japan. Such prohibitive rates have not only hurt ordinary consumers, but have
also served as among the strongest disincentives against manufacturing investments in the
country. [R. J. Heydarian, 2014]
But there is a deeper lesson to draw from the Philippines' power-generation predicament.
Contrary to the conventional analysis forwarded by most analysts, including Karen Brooks, what
the Philippines needs the most is not more privatization and economic liberalization per se -which have actually exacerbated rather than ameliorated the country's structural economic
weaknesses since the 1990s -- but instead a stronger state that (a) can bust oligarchic collusion,
and (b) protect the interest of the consumers and productive sectors of the economy. And we
won't have a dramatic turnabout in the Philippines' economic fortunes unless the Aquino
administration and its successors fully internalize the indispensable role of the state, which
The Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), on the other hand, which commenced
its Visayas WESM in early 2011. By October 2012, the integrated WESM had a total of 124
participants comprised of 54 generating companies and 47 customer trading participants
comprised of six Private Distribution Utilities (PDUs), 26 Electric Cooperatives (ECs), 13 bulk
end-users and seven wholesale aggregators. Approximately 2,636GWH, translating to 9.2
percent of the total energy consumed in the Luzon and Visayas regions, were traded in the
WESM from October 2011 to April 2012, while the remaining 90.8 percent of the total volume
was transacted and settled outside the market. [R. G. Manabat, 2013-2014]
Our shortage of electricity is a real, serious problem that we cannot downplay. But if we
focus exclusively on it, we run the risk of seeing just the trees and not the forest. That was what
then energy undersecretary Rufino Bomasang told participants of a media briefing on business
and economics reporting convened by the Press Foundation of Asia at Los Baos, Laguna almost
two decades ago. Today, the scenario has not changed. In an article which appeared in Business
Mirror, Adam Jones wrote: As it stands, the (Philippines) relies heavily on outside sources of
energy, which account for roughly 65 percent of its energy needs. However, despite slowing
industrial demand for power, some industry insiders still believe the country could face a power
shortage of 3000 megawatts by 2012. Speaking in London in June 1997, then British
environment minister Michael Meacher said: Energy policies should be designed to promote
As for our project, the load power control, it can manipulate the on and off system of
each appliances that are connected to the device via text message using GSM module. This
project can help out in terms of power saving or power consumption because it limits the
allowable power to distribute in every load, it also make sure that no load will overheat. Occur
because all of the load that are connected to device can virtually control and will shut down once
it detects overload and high power consumption than the allowable power to use. The user can
send message to the device according to its code and the device connected on a particular outlet
to turn on or off. On the other hand the device can also send message to the user to inform that
the power consumption is high or if the system is overload.
1.3 Objectives
INPUT
PROCESS
OUTPUT
To reduce the power consumption in a household, office and any other applications.
KNOWLEDGE
To avoid overloading that may cause fire.
To limit the
allowance
wattage and
save power.
Electronic
Device
&
LIMITING LOAD
toCreating
a system
Circuit
To eliminate
the need of being physically
present
POWER the
Analysis
design
blockin any location for tasks involving
Programming
CONSUMPTION
diagram, schematics,
operation
of
appliances
within
a
household/office.
DEVICE
Languages
and layouts.
Digital And Data
Assembly languages
THROUGH GSM
Communication
for Arduino
1.4 Statement
of the Problem
Microcontrollers
MATERIALS
Testing software
How to minimize power and time wastage using this product?
applications
Arduino
How to use GSM device interfaces with microcontroller in sending SMS?
Testing of sensors,
GSM
Howshield
can the user check the power status connected to the device?
processors, displays
LCD
display
How the user can enable the supply of power once it shut down due to overloading of
and drivers.
5v Power supply
appliancesfilters
connected to the device?
Electronic
Relays and drivers
3A/12V-0V-12V
center tapped
transformer
TOOLS AND
EQUIPMENTS
Computer
Embedded
Equipment
Oscilloscope
Measuring
instruments
Power supply
SCOPE
The future implications of the project are very great considering the amount of time and
resources it saves.
This project work is complete on its own in remotely and automatically switching on and
off of an electrical appliance not limited to household appliances, and sends a feedback
DELIMITATION
It cannot send messages to the other phones that are not default in the program.
The time for the device to response is not fixed to a certain seconds.
The user must reload the number of the GSM because this is most likely covers up the
features of a cellphone that can send and receive text messages and you have to reload it
in order for the device to response.
Oscillator -Is a mechanical or electronic device that works on the principles of oscillation: a
Periodic fluctuation between two things based on changes in energy.
Chapter 2
In [R. G. Sarangle, U. P. Khot, J. Modi] the present system of energy billing is error prone and
also time and labor consuming. Errors get introduced at every stage of energy billing like errors
with electro-mechanical meters, human errors while noting down the meter reading, and errors
while processing the paid bills and the due bills. The home appliances which consume more
power cause an increase in the payment of excessive bills. The remedy for all these problems
GPMC (GSM based power meter and control system) is developed which consist of the
integration of a single phase Class 1, IEC61036, standard compliance digital kWh power meter.
It will keep track of the meter reading of each day and the reading with the user identification
number send it to the user as well as to the electricity department and Electricity e-Billing system
associated with electricity department will keep the track of each SMS meter reading and the
appropriate bill get generated at the last day of the month and the bill is forwarded to user from
In [T. Ismail , D. karki , Z. Mollick , S. D. , M. Deka] the remote power distribution system using
GSM aims to design and implement efficient and cost effective solution for replacing the manual
process of power cut/load shedding from a centralized location. It consists of two GSM modems,
one at the control station and the other one connected to the transformer from where the
electricity is divided into certain branches in an area. Here the control station modem utilizes
GSM network to turn a branch line of a transformer either on/off. It also consists of a LCD
display which displays the state of the channel/branches of the transformer as either on/off. In
case of network failure, a set of manual switches are also there to turn on/off the channels
manually. Electromagnetic relays are used as circuit breakers.
In [S. Sukhumar, P. M. Aravind, L. Manivannan , P. N. Kumar and N. Su. Vanitha] this paper
presents the development of Automatic Trip Control System for Energy Management using
GSM. The proposed system monitors the usage level of electricity of every consumer at all the
time. During excess of electrical energy used by consumer, the system will give the alerts
through an alarm circuit. After the alarm circuit, the consumer has to take an alternative solution
to cut-off excess supply from the Electricity Board (EB) to stop alarming. Otherwise, the circuit
breaker will come into OFF position and the supply will be tripping-off coming from EB. The
information about the particular consumer will be sent to EB through GSM (Global System for
Mobile Communication Network).Then, the consumer has to give the requisition to EB for
making the circuit breaker coming into normal with the help of PIC microcontroller, which is
programmed to monitor the parameters of electrical energy. This system helps for illegal usage of
electricity, monitoring the energy, maintaining data on tariff etc. The implementation and
demonstration of the system were made.
In [M. Sarsamba ,P. Sangulagi, R. Yanamshetty] the load monitoring and protection on electrical
power lines are important factors in Electricity Field. The Paper proposes a monitoring of Load
and Power lines using SMS based GSM Technology. The Proposed methodology is designed and
implemented using mobile embedded system to monitor and record load fluctuations with
respect to current and voltage in electric power lines and it also controls the same when line
breaks during high load. The proposed on-line monitoring system integrates a Global Service
Mobile (GSM) Modem; withstand along single chip microcontroller and sensor packages. It is
installed at the site and above mentioned parameter are recorded using -in -8-channel analog to
digital convert (ADC) of the embedded system .The acquired parameters are processed and
recorded in the system memory. If there is any abnormality according to some predefined
instruction and policies that are stored on the embedded system EEPROM then GSM alerts to
concerned control room immediately. This mobile system will help the utilities to optimally
utilize the protection of power line and identify problems before any catastrophic failure. This
system provides flexible control of load parameters accurately and also provides effective means
for rectification of faults if any abnormality occurs in power lines using SMS through GSM
network.
In [A. Sachan] this project is also designed to protect the electrical circuitry by operating an
Electromagnetic Relay. This Relay gets activated whenever the electrical parameters exceed the
predefined values. The Relay can be used to operate a Circuit Breaker to switch off the main
In [K. P. Satheyamoorthy Dean] the Modern world intelligent control is adopted in every field,
although the service provider for energy are still uses the conventional methods for getting the
energy consumed by the customer. The conventional method is very time consuming and
expensive which may also lead to human error. Our proposed method will automatically send the
data of the digital energy meter to the service provider with the help of the GSM modem once in
a day and hence the system will generate a report and send to the service provider once in a day
through SMS. The same system can be used to check the last reading consumed by the consumer,
when the demand request send by the user through the same methodology. It can also be used to
control the load from both the ends with the help of relay circuit. An LCD display is provided to
display the readings and to update the consumers informations such as tariff change or sudden
power cut.
In [M. Rangwala, I. Bhabay, V. S. Sharma] these days the electricity department has to send
employees for taking meter reading every month, which is an expensive and time consuming job.
It
uses
standard
energy
meter
that
delivers
output pulses for microcontroller to do counting for necessary action. On receiving command it
can even switch ON/OFF the load. The power supply consists of a step down transformer
230/12V, which steps down the voltage to 12V AC. This is converted to DC using a Bridge
rectifier. The ripples are removed using a capacitive filter and it is then regulated to +5V using a
voltage regulator 7805 which is required for the operation of the microcontroller and other
components.
Chapter 3
Design Procedure
3.1
a. Design the possible circuits which the availability of the components are
exists that are in specified application.
b. It must be include the computation in each parameter to be use for the
prototype.
c. Explore the possible circuit experiments through simulation in the software
application until it operates.
d. For internal application, design a program for the specific prototype for its
function in the microcontroller.
e. Collect the materials, the tools and equipments, and measuring instruments.
f. Prepare for the casing that exact for the circuit.
These are the process and procedures are that how does the system works. It
includes the process of the microcontroller presented in flow charts (It must be to be
follow up, presently under of investigation during design and process.)
Project Design
Figure 3-1
(PIC16F877A)
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