Independent Island Grid for Powering Homes Using Monitoring System

Authors

  • A. Rathinam1 , E. Siddharth Mannadiar2 , Tarway Preeti Rakesh3 , Pratyush Roy4

Abstract

This paper presents an idea of utilizing secondary life of used Lithium Ion batteries to provide electricity in hilly
areas The use of electricity in day to day activities is innumerable, from charging our mobile phones to the use of
heavy-duty machines. Considering the terrain which varies from place to place it is difficult to supply electricity to
the remote locations like hilly areas or rural region, wherein the supply of electric power is difficult owing to the
geographical terrain. One of the good solution to overcome this difficulty is to use an Islanding system where a
source delivers power to only a small part of an area, unlike tradition grid which supplies power to a wider area.
The main source of power is the salvaged or used lithium-ion battery cells which can be extracted from used
consumer electronic goods such as laptops, e-bike kits, and even from the battery pack of an electric car that
contains thousands of these cells. A statistical model based on previous years’ data along with its dependency on
temperature and humidity, an approximate model can be set up. For analysis and monitoring basic IoT network is
set up can show the consumption of power as well as the temperature and humidity in real-time. Such a system has
many advantages one of the prominent being the reduction in the emission of greenhouses gases as well as being
incentivized for the customer. Apart from this the maintenance also becomes easy along with fault rectification.
Promising results obtained are presented.

Published

2020-03-31

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