Prospects of Energy Optimization

Abstract

Electricity consumption is the actual demand for energy produced by the current supply of electricity. In 2012, the gross electricity usage was 20,900 TWh, and it was 21,372 TWh in 2017. Electricity usage has been increasing rapidly, despite severe supply constraints caused by delays in the implementation of new capacity additions, decreased capacity utilization due to maintenance problems, the availability of coal and oil, and draught conditions (1979-80), which have simultaneously reduced the availability of hydropower and increased agricultural demand for elevator irrigation. Annual per capita electricity consumption serves as an important indicator of the production of electric power in a region. Generally speaking, as the industrialization process progresses quickly and declines rapidly when industrialization is completed or near completion, electricity demand increases faster. The same can be said for per capita annual electricity use. Due to this increase in demand of electricity it is very important that we use the electricity that we have very efficiently and economically. By the virtue of this project we have tried to optimize the way we consume electricity. This is achieved by designing an automated process which controls the intensity of light, temperature etc. of a room by counting the number of people inside the room. We prepared the model of a room which has electrical appliances like lights and fans just as any room. We have integrated a circuit which can control the switching of all the appliances in the room. With the help of IR sensors which are fit at the entrance and exit of the Room, we can count the number of people that are inside the Room. According to a pre specified amount of people to one set of appliances, we can determine the number of appliances we need to switch off/on. Hence, we can optimize the amount of electricity we use, by minimizing the usage.