Smart energy monitoring system with ADE7758 IC

Brazil is experiencing its greatest power supply crisis since the 2001 rationing. With the growing risks of blackouts, the largest country in Latin America must face the challenges arising from the power failure looking for ways to improve the efficiency of energy supply. In recent years, with the improvement of the population´s purchasing power, there was a substantial increase in energy demand and the need to seek improvements in energy parameters in the generation and supply. Therefore, the investigation for the energy parameters evaluation methods is imperative as well as the advance of equipment performance. This paper details the development of a smart energy system incorporating features to monitor energy parameters of equipments and perform functions like real time energy monitoring, power factor and alerts against overvoltage and overcurrent. The proposed meter uses the capabilities of ADE7758 IC as well an ATmega16 microcontroller.