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One of the most challenges of power consumption in Bahrain is the air conditioners during the summer. The air conditioner in its nature consumes energy while it operates and, in the summer, it could be work most of the day due to very hot weather outside. The goal of this work is to reduce the power consumption by the air conditioner as less as possible. This could happen by using an integrated system that has a web-based system and IOT unit which interact together to control the air conditioner and make it operate in its ideal way. The results showed after applied the system for three days a reduction in power consumption by 30%.
Inspec keywords: air conditioning; power engineering computing; Internet of Things; power consumption; Internet
Subjects: Power engineering computing; Air conditioning; Internet software; Mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing; Refrigeration and cooling (energy utilisation)