POWER QUALITY, CONTINUITY AND LOAD MONITORING OVER IOT

This paper deals with term Power Quality and its reference to terms Voltage and Current Quality, Continuity of supply. For long time the main concern of consumers of electricity was the continuity of the supply, i.e. the reliability. Nowadays consumers want not only reliability, but quality too. Power quality is determined by ability of customer equipment to perform properly. The reason to explain the current interest in power quality is growing economic impacts on the network operators (i.e. the utilities) and their customers. The devices and equipment being applied in industrial and commercial facilities are more sensitive to power quality disturbances than equipment applied in the past. The whole system is as sensitive as the most sensitive equipment. Malfunction of equipment or misoperation of an important process can affect production continuity resulting in material damages. PIC Microcontroller is used as controller; current sensor and voltage sensor are used to monitor the power supply. The details of parameters are updated in the thingspeak through IoT module connected to the controller. Any disturbance can be identified easily and necessary measures can be taken immediately to avoid further loss.