Design and Construction of Power Monitoring and Circuit Breaker Devices for PLN Customers based on IoT
Sagita Rochman, Afif Nuril Musthofa, Muchammad Rizky Firmansyah · BEST Journal of Applied Electrical Science & Technology · 2024
Along with the modern Indonesian society's need for electricity consumption, the level of electricity consumption continues to increase. Electricity consumption among postpaid PLN customers with single-phase connections is often poorly regulated due to inadequate monitoring of power usage and frequent payment delays between the 1st and 20th of each month. This study involved the development of a monitoring device designed to track power usage for single-phase PLN customers. Additionally, an electricity circuit breaker was created that can be controlled remotely via the officer's smartphone. This monitoring system uses PZEM-0004T as the sensor. The voltage, current, power and energy data will be read by the sensor and then sent by the ESP8266 to the Internet of Things (IoT) based Blynk Website. This breaker tool uses a relay as an electrical circuit breaker on the customer side. With this tool, it is possible to reduce illegal use of PLN electricity and reduce the number of arrears in customer electricity bill payments to PLN.