Intelligent Power Meter (PEAS Spec)
In many industrial areas we have uses for basic Agents for AI’s. The product I am going to refer to doesn’t exist in the United States yet, but it’s a smart “power meter”. The way a traditional power-meter works is you have small dials on a power meter (which is owned by the electric company). The older power meters were checked monthly by an inspector who went out to the power meter and checked how much power you used that month, and sent you a bill for how many kW/Hr used in that time period.
The problems are coming into play in the 21st century. With the state governments where I come from (Sacramento, CA), refusing to make nuclear power-plants, allow gas power-plants, oil burning power-plants, Coal-power-plants, we have a scarcity of electricity. The government is trying to move to all renewable energy which is solar power and windmills.
Solar power works well in a Mediterranean environment because the amount of days per year that is sunshine in the central valley of California. Unfortunately because the SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utilities District) corporation is incapable of making their own power large enough to satisify, they are importing the power hundreds of miles north from Oregon, and selling it to customers at a premium. My house without any self power-generation, the electric bill is about $800.00 per month.
I have seen several designs which rely on carbon credits and block-chain which I don’t agree with from fellow students I know. I personally don’t trust block-chain, and I think that its an excess of technology usage for the situation.
By regulation all new housing construction has to incorporate Solar Panels, I have heard of this happening in North Carolina, although power is so cheap in North Carolina from the Nuclear and Coal plants, it’s not justified economically and there are too many overcast days per year to justify expensive solar panels.
What I am suggesting is an IoT power-meter, that allows consumption derivatives to be connected to the internet of the Municipal district to monitor sums of power consumption at the central control center. What the biggest problem with electricity is that during heatwaves or very hot days the demand for air conditioning burns a lot of electricity. There are other days that the power production exceeds the demand and this power is wasted. Having a more accurate power consumption that is up to date with electronic meters is important.
PEAS spec:
Performance: The goal of this project is to stop the grid from under-producing and overproducing electricity to
ENVIRONMENT:
The environment is dynamic changing times throughout the year based on atmospheric conditions and seasonal days and nights based on summer and winter solstice.
ACTUATORS: When power consumption is low, it tells the buildings with solar panels to allow them to produce power and lower the reliance on the central power plant. When power consumption is high, it produces more than the cities local domestic power generation can produce and bills the consumption (Standard model)
SENSORS:
There are three Sensor intakes. One Sensor is the weather station scripting into the program telling the weather forecast. This is a public script that can be used on any program, this accounts for the dynamic environment and prepares the power company of what baseline to produce. Second Sensor is the power-meters transmitting the consumption derivative to the power plant, allowing them to sense the entire grids power demand (Third Sensor) accurately and make the according production decisions.
