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Short Paper—Smart Home: Power Electric Monitoring and Control in Indonesia 

Smart Home: Power Electric Monitoring  
and Control in Indonesia 

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v13i03.10070  

Novian Adi Prasetyo(*),	Andhika Galuh Prabawati, Suyoto 
Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 

novian66@gmail.com 

Abstract—The development of the Internet of Things Industry in Indonesia 
is increasing rapidly from year to year. One of the uses in this industry is being 
able to carry out monitoring, control, and analysis. The smart home is one of the 
applications of IoT that is used in households to make it easier for humans to 
monitor and control all devices at home. Most homes in Indonesia have various 
commonly used resources; these are water, electricity, and gas. These resources 
will run out quickly if humans cannot use them properly. Therefore we need to 
monitor and control the resources we have at home. One of the resources that 
will be monitored and controlled in this study is electricity resources because it 
is more widely used in every corner of the house and almost all household de-
vices use these electricity resources. 

This research proposes a way to do electricity use effectiveness with moni-
toring and power control using cloud-based IoT. The proposal discussed in the 
paper is expected to have other benefits besides saving electricity resources, but 
it is also expected to reduce the cost of energy use at home. 

Keywords—Monitoring and controlling, power electric system, smart home, 
IoT 

1 Introduction 

Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast-growing topic because the concept of IoT can po-
tentially affect the way we live, but it also affects humans at work. IoT provides a 
powerful tool not only connected with wireless communication devices but wireless 
sensors for utilities needed in homes are better for managing energy use [1]. 

Technology that is growing rapidly makes a role in building dream homes to in-
crease the comfort and safety of residents. Home automation systems are currently 
very popular and widely used by many people. Human needs for electricity are also 
very high, almost all household appliances use electricity. Many people cannot con-
trol electricity usage in their own homes. In addition, the use of electric power cannot 
be seen in detail but can only be seen as a whole when paying electricity bills. Anoth-
er thing that might happen is an electric leak that is unknown to the user. 

Smart House can be one solution to the problems described above. Using Smart 
home, we can also monitor household appliances remotely [2]. Smart home networks 

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can be integrated to fulfill the functions needed in homes and buildings[3]. But smart 
homes are not enough to make users aware of the environment. In addition it is one of 
the major challenges that appear in the smart home system based IoT is security issues 
[4]. Demand to monitor environmental factors almost in all research institutes, indus-
tries and even for domestic purpose [5]. Energy efficiency is a key to being able to 
control all devices at home that use electricity. This research will try to design power 
savings with IoT control on smart homes. Devices to be controlled such as monitoring 
electric power on all home devices, controlling lights, TV, air conditioning, dispens-
ers, and fan. 

The design of electric power control that has been made, in the future can be im-
plemented by utilizing existing smartphone applications such as telegram and other 
social media to make it easier for users to access and control all their home devices. 
The control can be done by making use of smart phones we have, using a Wi-fi signal 
[6]. Energy control can also be used to control room temperature when occupants of a 
house enter/leave home[1]. Besides that smart home also needs to be considered be-
cause it can improve the quality of human life [7]. Evaluation of datasets obtained 
through real life is also very interesting to discuss more deeply, this has been proven 
by other researchers [8] . The application of smart home will certainly have an impact 
on the behavior of residents and new perceptions [9]. This has been proven by other 
studies that prove that some people who have implemented this IoT-based smart home 
have their own motivations that need to be explored more deeply [10]. The results 
obtained from the existing smart home design implications can encourage future de-
velopment [14]. 

2 Related Work 

Smart Home can be interpreted as a residence that is equipped with the sophistica-
tion of information technology that can interact to respond to the needs of residents of 
the house by means of automating the device, comfort, security, savings. In conduct-
ing its operations, smart home needs to be assisted by computer devices and 
smartphone devices that we have [11]. Smart home designs can also utilize cloud 
platforms on household appliances [12]. The development of Smart home also needs 
to be learned about the habits of existing house occupants [13]. Smart home also 
needs to be seen in terms of security and privacy risk, previous research revealed that 
the risks found include risk with software and human behavior [10]. Smart homes will 
become one of the priority areas of strategic energy planning and national policy [14]. 
Monitoring can be accessed through the web or smartphone that we have. One of the 
uses of smartphone applications that can be connected with IoT devices is telegram 
[7]. Monitoring on a smart home can also be developed by creating a real-time sched-
ule for home energy management [15]. 

IoT is a new concept that provides a series of services for the next wave of techno-
logical innovation [16]. The application of IoT has been widely used in various fields, 
one of which is health. In the world of IoT health combined with sensor devices, ac-
cording to other studies, monitoring in the field of health based on distance can use 

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sensors to send data into software machines [17]. Data that has been collected from 
these sensors will be sent to the web server to be able to use web-based monitoring 
[18]. Wireless sensors are the main component, these devices affect the performance 
and accuracy of the network [19]. 

3 Purpose Method 

This research will create a smart home design with the architecture described in 
Figure 1. 

 
Fig. 1. System Architecture 

In Figure 1 explains how the application can monitor and control the home via the 
internet, on each electronic device an electric current sensor will be installed to read 
the amount of electric current used by the device, then the data is sent via the internet 
and stored on the server so that the application can access the data, based on these 
data the application will process and display the results through notifications for pow-
er saving warnings. In Figure 1, there is 2-way communication, which shows that the 
application not only monitors the home but also can control electricity usage remote-
ly. 

3.1 Power save mode 

Power saving mode is one of the methods used in this study in order to reduce ex-
cessive electricity usage based on the results of monitoring, this mode can be con-
trolled manually on each household device or controlled through notification when 
the electricity usage has or will be over the limit, the working mode of power saving 
mode is using a PIR sensor and LDR sensor to monitor the state of the house, then the 
sensor data will be used by a microcontroller to turn off or turn on household devices 
via a relay automatically when the power saving mode is activated.  

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4 Results and Discussion 

4.1 Smart home design 

In this study, the design of the smart home on the side of the house was built using 
a set of microcontroller tools and sensors needed. In Table 1 will explain the details of 
the needs of the devices that will be used as the basis for the construction of a smart 
home. 

Table 1.  Microcontroller and Sensor Devices 
No Name 
1 Microcontroller 
2 Internet Module 
3 AC Voltmeter 
4 Relay 
5 LDR Sensor 
6 PIR Motion Sensor 

 
The microcontroller is the main device that will be used in this study, which is a 

chip that functions as an electronic circuit controller. In the study [20][21] using the 
Arduino microcontroller in his research because it is an open source device so the 
costs used during implementation are quite cheap, in the study [22] they used the 
Raspberry Pi model B to build a medical treatment project at home, they also used the 
official Raspberry Pi operating system Raspbian, in this study [23] they use 
STM32F103 microcontroller for controlling smart home on a LAN network by utiliz-
ing wireless sensor network, According to this study [24] BeagleBone is a microcon-
troller that has high speed proccessing, and has a lot of input and output, but has a 
high cost. The internet module is a device used for communication between micro-
controllers and servers on the internet, in the study [25] of welfare control and com-
fort in the room for aging population using ESP8266 and combining Arduino for 
processing and transmitting data to allow data to be accessed through web and via 
mobile applications in real time. AC Voltmeter is used to calculate the passing current 
so that power usage can be monitored properly. The relay is used as a circuit breaker 
that is carried out automatically through a microcontroller. LDR sensors are used to 
detect day and night through captured light and PIR motion sensors are used to detect 
the presence of people in the house. 

Figure 2 shows the IoT architecture design that will be applied to the house, in that 
design uses examples of some common devices in Indonesia. 

Figure 2 (a) is a part of the microcontroller in which wifi has been embedded to 
communicate with the server 

Figure 2 (b) is a relay circuit that will function to disconnect electricity from the 
device, this relay will work in 2 conditions, the first condition is working according to 
the remote done by the user through the application, the second condition works au-
tomatically when the power saving mode is activated 

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Image 2 (c) is a voltmeter component installed in each channel of the socket, the 
purpose is to calculate the power used in each socket. Figure 2 (d) is part of a house-
hold device that is connected to a socket that has a voltmeter attached, this household 
device that will be controlled by electricity. Figure 2 (e) is a group of sensors that will 
be used as automatic relay control in Figure 2 (b), the sensor will only work if the 
power saving mode is activated, then the output of the sensor will rule the microcon-
troller to disconnect or connect the relay. 

 
Fig. 2. Smart Home Design 

4.2 Design of smart home applications 

The mobile application is built to control and monitor household devices that have 
been connected to the microcontroller, each I / O pin number on the microcontroller is 
connected to the server so that on mobile devices only need to do pin number match-
ing so that control and monitoring can be done with household devices right. In the 
application section, there are features that can be used to monitor the use of electric 
power and control electrical power, in Figure 3 will display the design requirements 
of the application.  

Figure 3 (a) displays the main dashboard page of the application, on this page is 
displayed the total electricity usage for one month and a pie chart that contains data 
on the amount of electricity that has been used (marked with thick color) and the re-
maining electrical unused (marked with thin colors). Under the pie chart, there is data 

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that displays the total electricity usage for one day. At the bottom, there is a button to 
access important menus in the application. In figure 3 (b) displaying pages for adding 
household devices, household devices that can be added are devices that have been 
connected to a microcontroller and are connected to the server, based on the data 
server, then household devices can be connected to the smart home application using 
pin number I / O on a microcontroller.  

In figure 3 (c) displays a page for controlling household devices, the control is to 
turn on and turn off household devices using the application, besides that there is a 
feature to edit and delete household devices that have been stored in the application. 
In Figure 3 (d) displaying a list of household devices connected with smart home 
applications, each household device can be seen for a total of one month's power 
usage, when the household device consumes too much electricity then the user can 
activate the save mode electricity by touching on the household device to be con-
trolled, after that a popup will appear as shown in Figure 3 (g), the popup displays 
details of daily and monthly electrical power usage and a button to enable or disable 
the selected household device. In Figure 3 (e) displays the settings page to set the 
application to bring up a reminder in the form of notification as seen in Figure 3 (f), if 
the notification setting is activated the system will display a notification according to 
the electricity usage limit within one month and the percentage usage limit electricity. 
the electricity usage limit can be filled according to household needs, the goal is that 
he system is able to remind when the electricity usage is almost over the limit. By 
default the system will send a notification if the limit has been used above 80%, the 
percentage value can be set according to the user's wishes. 

 
Fig. 1. Smart Home Mobile Application  

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4.3 Smart home application flowchart 

 
Fig. 3. Flow Smart Home Application 

In this study, the application will be designed using a mobile application so that us-
ers can access from mobile devices. In Figure 4 describes the process flow of the 
smart home application in monitoring and controlling. 

When the application is opened the first feature displayed is the power usage moni-
toring feature that has been used during the current month. In silent conditions the 
application still works and monitors power usage, if the power usage is approaching 
the limit automatically the system will give a notification to activate the electric pow-
er saving mode with the aim of reducing the level of usage of electric power. When 
the power saving mode is active, the output of the sensor will be noticed by the mi-
crocontroller, the infrared sensor will be noticed by the microcontroller to detect the 
presence of occupants in a space, the LDR sensor will be noticed by the microcontrol-
ler to detect daylight. If the room is uninhabited during the day, the microcontroller 
will order the relay to disconnect the power of the lamp so that the lamp device will 
turn off and come back to life when the occupants come back into the room during the 
day. If the room is not inhabited, the microcontroller will order the relay to disconnect 
all household devices except the lamp so that all household devices except the lamp 
will turn off and turn on again when the occupants reenter the room. 

5 Conclusion 

The steps and designs that have been made, are expected to be a new proposal, es-
pecially for the people of Indonesia in order to be able to control electric power using 
sophisticated equipment that can be controlled with a smartphone. This control can 

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affect the cost of electricity bills that must be paid every month. In the future, the 
application can be utilize GPS as a technique of tracking the position of the home-
owner with smart home, so that the smart home can be detected when the homeowner 
will go home. 

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7 Authors 

Novian Adi Prasetyo is a Magister Teknik Informatika Student at Universitas 
Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is a scholar of the Stikom Yos 
Sudarso Purwokerto. His research interests are the mobile app, web programming, 
and machine learning. 

Andhika Galuh Prabawati is a Magister Teknik Informatika Student at Universi-
tas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His research interests are the data-
base, data warehouse, and mobile app user experience. 

Suyoto is Professor in Department of Informatics Engineering at Universitas Atma 
Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has more than seventeen years of teaching experi-
ence. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the National University of Malaysia, Ma-
laysia. His research interests are multimedia, computer graphics, visualization, mobile 
application, and artificial intelligence. 

Article submitted 2019-01-01. Resubmitted 2019-02-19. Final acceptance 2019-02-23. Final version 
published as submitted by the authors. 

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