Power Management for Smart Grids
This research was focused on designing a prototype of Power management Unit that can be smartly utilised for consumption and distribution of electricity from DC micro-Grid especially in rural areas of Pakistan and a communication system which is able to perform bidirectional flow of information in real time between web server and nodes. Information retrieved by sensors is processed by micro controller namely DSPIC and then channelled to ESP8266 via serial communication which is connected to web portal via Wi-Fi. Based on the information received from the node administrator can take decisions which were relayed back to ESP8266 which transmits the data to PIC16 and then microcontroller takes action based on the administrator’s decisions. All the processed data is stored in a memory card at site and online in a cloud storage.