How to check the electricity consumption of your system with the ‘energy’ bus peripheral

Check the electricity consumption of your home has become one of the main objectives of modern home automation applied to home comfort. In fact, the new control systems for the home are not limited to the management of household devices (from those for entertainment to household appliances), but prove to be an indispensable aid to always have the consumption of electricity under control, with consequent incidence also on savings.

Let’s see briefly how this control action takes place and through which applications we can read all the data relating to ours household energy consumption.

How to control electricity consumption thanks to home automation

To keep home electricity consumption under control, we must get help from specially designed devices, able to quantify consumption and act to correct any problems related to excessive use of electricity at home.

The devices that help control consumption are called meters and are used to monitor every line of our home, in terms of consumption and energy production: we are talking about multiple lines and, not surprisingly, these devices are extremely useful also in terms of control over the production of electricity (for all those homes that are equipped with photovoltaic systems, for example).

In the field of meters there is the ‘energy’ module which, in addition to the control function, also guarantees the possibility of managing the power of the system: thanks to a single device, you can access the analysis data and manage the consumption of your appliances.

Loads management: avoiding surprises in energy consumption

One of the predominant functions of the modules for controlling electricity consumption concerns the possibility of managing loads: that is, the maximum power that our system can bear, based on the energy supply contract we have stipulated with the operator.

Let’s think about how many times we have seen our home meter go off due to the simultaneous switching on of two or more appliances, due to an excessive load on the line.

The most common examples concern, for example, oven and washing machine or air conditioner during the summer: in short, situations where overload leads to the interruption of energy are very frequent, with the consequent inconvenience of having to go to manually operate the meter. to restore the current in your home.

Thanks to Ksenia’s ‘energy’ module this problem is overcome. In fact, the device works in such a way that the meter is always able to evaluate the power absorption due to the simultaneous switching on of the various household appliances, acting precisely on these when the preset threshold is reached.

Load management is performed thanks to the meters, which have two thresholds.

The first is of maximum absorption (expressed in Watts) and, when it is exceeded, the home automation control devices inside the house (such as the ergo-T and ergo-T plus keypads but also the lares 4.0 App) receive a signal alert. This is a feature that really makes a difference because it allows you to be notified in time if you are consuming excessively, thus preventing disconnection of loads.

The second threshold is higher and, once exceeded, ‘energy’ automatically starts the load disconnection procedure: this allows in practice to always have continuity in the power supply, avoiding the trip of the meter due to overload.

How to keep electricity consumption under control

To have all the information about the consumption and the level of electricity loads to which the domestic system is subjected, it is useful to have a consumption monitoring app.

Having an application that can then integrate with the home automation system allows you to analyze and view the data from a single platform with extreme comfort: thanks to the lares 4.0 control unit, in fact, up to 8 outputs can be configured for control and measurement of electrical energy absorption.

This is also very useful in the presence of a photovoltaic system, allowing you to monitor the energy produced, in order to compare it with that consumed by the other connected devices, thus always having the energy balance of your home available.

Just access the Smart Home page within the lares 4.0 App and, under the appliance category, all those configured with the ‘energy’ module will appear: here you will have access to the graphs and the history of all consumption.

A very powerful tool that helps in planning consumption, reducing energy waste and also promoting savings, thanks to the possibility of independently programming switching on and off and identifying the sources from which the greatest consumption derives.