Smart Energy Consumption Management System for UTP Academic Buildings

Over the years, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) has reported a high reading for its Building Energy Index (BEI). Clearly, this indicates that there are excessive amount of electricity consumption within the campus. The highest BEI comes from the academic buildings. A study conducted to identify the root cause of this issue has shown that there is no systematic system or procedure used to monitor and manage the electricity usage in the campus. Hence, this project aims to develop a system that will help to monitor the energy consumption in UTP academic buildings. The main purpose of this system is to calculate the total amount of electricity consumption, and thus computing the amount of Carbon Dioxide ( ) omission based on the amount of consumed electricity by a particular building. Apart from that, the system will also compute the amount of ideal and excess electricity usage for that building. This is calculated by roughly sum up the power consumption by all the available electrical devices includes air conditioned, computers, light bulbs, server (if any), CCTVs, electronic door lock and others that operate on the building. Power consumption for each electronic device can be estimate through its production label and estimated operating hours per day. The summary report for all these data will be generated on monthly and yearly basis. With all these info being produced by this system, UTP management will be aware if there are over omitted gas resulting from the electricity usage and also the excessively used electricity and thus take an appropriate action towards a proper way of managing its energy consumption rate to promote a Green IT concept within the campus. This system does not solve the over consumed energy and over omitted but only provides all the necessary records and data based on the energy consumed.