Smart Home Tracking: A Smart Home Architecture for Smart Energy Consumption in a Residence with Multiple Users

In this project, an architecture is implemented that can monitor and assist users in calculating their energy consumption by means of IoT technologies. It is necessary to create a system to improve and help the user in their consumption-based planning due to advances in technology. This implementation can be achieved with the use of IoT (Internet of Things) and thus ensure user convenience and comfort, which is the main goal of a smart home. These technologies involve the interoperability of the data obtained from each appliance and the location of users between the communication hardware layers specified for monitoring. This paper also provides information about cloud services, which are made available by middleware and may also include new external applications. The architecture offers details about consumption and recommends means to improve it by creating profiles which can help end users in making decisions for better optimization of the consumption rate that matches the demands of the customers or the electric power utility. This paper concludes that this architecture is very promising and new and viable technologies can be implemented to make significant improvements for the residents and electric power utilities.