First step towards a cost-effective lot platform for customers power consumption awareness

The paper deals with the definition, implementation and performance assessment of an Internet of things (IoT) platform for measuring and monitoring power consumption in smart home or smart industry applications. Thanks to the adoption of suitable cost-effective hardware components and a proper software architecture implemented on Raspberry PI, the IoT platform can assure real-time power monitoring on electrical loads connected to domestic and industrial power plugs. Particular attention has been paid to the selection of the application layer protocol mandated to exchange data between the power measuring nodes and the Raspberry PI in order to assure reliable communication with a reduced computational and connection overhead. The availability of the measurement results on a web page that does not require any specific software but a web browser highlights the efficacy of the adopted platform to assure aware in power consumption for domestic and industrial customers.