IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 03 | Mar-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 466 REAL TIME ENERGY DATA ACQUISITION AND ALARMING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING POWER CONSUMPTION IN INDUSTRY S. D. Sankpal 1 , S.B.Patil 2 1 ME (ETC) Student, E & TC, Dr.J.J.Magdum College of Engineering, Jaysingpur, India 2 Professor, Electronics, Dr.J.J.Magdum College of Engineering, Jaysingpur, India Abstract Manufacturing and the processes involved consume substantial amounts of energy. There can be requirement of energy management technique in the power tool manufacturing industry. The maintenance department in power tool manufacturing industry may have different load centers like machine shop, winding shop, utility and assembly shop etc. Readings on these meters are taken manually. This process is time consuming and has inefficient accuracy. So, there can be need of computerized energy data acquisition system. By providing an alarming system the energy losses will be monitored. Through this system design, there will be automatic elimination of man-made errors, reading energy consumption report through Microsoft excel as well as firing through email. Keywords: Energy losses, Microcontroller, RS 232 and PC -----------------------------------------------------------------------***----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION Manufacturing and the processes involved consume substantial amounts of energy. Manufacturing is one of the most energy-intensive industrial activities. Because of the current global energy crisis, reducing energy consumption in manufacturing has become one of the top research priorities [2]. There can be requirement of energy management technique in the power tool manufacturing industry. The energy management technique will use energy information as a basis to eliminate waste, reduce and control current level of energy use and improve the existing operating procedures in the industry. The sample of energy meter in industry is shown in figure 1 below. Figure 2 shows panel of energy meters in the different load centers. Fig -1: Energy Meter Fig -2: Panel of Energy Meter 1.1 Need The maintenance department in industry may have different load centers like machine shop, winding shop, utility and assembly shop etc. From main incomer meter, energy is distributed to different meters having feeders to different load centers. Readings on these meters are taken manually. So for that purpose separate man-power is required. And this process is time consuming and has inefficient accuracy. Also there is energy wastage by workers in tea break and lunch break. These energy losses need to be monitored. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW R.Rajmohan, R.Ramesh Kumar and R.Bhuvaneswari presented the design of an automatic electricity meter reading based on ZigBee, which is used for data acquisition system in view of energy reading can be observed without visiting the customer’s site in “Microcontroller based remote and intelligent Energy Meter Reading with cost as SMS alert” International Journal of Engineering Technology and Computer Applications, Apr 2012 [1].