For the increasing popularity of
the smart home, various companies are able to advance a necessary technology that
brings affordable prices of smart home products to the market. Every day,
people are investing in products related to smart homes. Many of the families are
making their home smarter rather than using automatic coffee maker, the thermostats,
and the entire security system that is a lot more convenient.
Now, converting a regular home to
a smart home has some advantages and disadvantages.
Circuit Diagram of Converting the house from regular installation to
Smart home
Calculations of Converting the house from regular installation to Smart
home
Find the economical as well as technical
benefits of the reactive power compensations that are employed at substation
levels for power loss reduction, voltage regulations, and the increment in the
utilization of equipment. The recommended installation is the 1300MVAR for capacitors
banks at the MV sides of HV substations to maintain voltage levels.
The impact of installation of a
capacitor bank at a MV Bus Bar in the HV substation of Kuwait for the performance
of the distributions networks is carried out. Now in the distribution networks,
the operation parameters power factor, voltage, reactive power, and active
power are concerned.
The installation of the capacitor
bank in the Kuwait at the main switch board is shown in the below Figure 2. The
auditing of energy is the UMP library for building after the capacitor bank installation
is done within 1 week (Abas & et.al, 2008).
The Capacitor bank KVAR is
installed in the main switch for board correction values. The energy audit data
for the existing systems is to calculate the value of the capacitors bank per
phase whereas for the o7 power factor, the maximum demand is 27.86Watt per phase
the apparent power of 36.3747KVA. The apparent
power will be calculated using the below formula;
Advantages of Converting the house from regular installation to Smart
home
There are various advantages for converting
the house from regular installation to smart home and the value of saving.
Add the convenience in our daily
life
Customization
Security
Ease of Use
Save Environment & Money
Save Energy
Increase the Property Value
Easier to Lock & Unlock
When we convert the regular installation
of home into a smart home, it adds conveniences in our daily life because all
the products are programmed according to our specific needs. In addition, the programmed
products being able to control your home as well, no matter how it is beneficial
for this. Now there are various smart products in the market that are available;
you do not need to buy all of them. The thermostats as well as the security
systems are good products to start your home smarter. (Regencyhomesomaha.com, 2015)
In a smart home, security systems
allows you to view your home in better way no matter where you are. The security
systems means that, installing the motion detectors, cameras installed, and
locks will immediately notify you if anything is out of the ordinary. The change
of the unexpected temperature is notified by many of the systems that are altered
if there are any possible fire systems.
For every house owner, the energy
saver is the primary concerns. So many electric gadgets as well as convenient
appliances increase the amount of the energy consumption day by day. There is
no waste of the energy with smart home systems. After the usage of devices, machines
as well as appliances cloud be managed and turned off immediately. The
lightening and controlling of house is a lot easier where the waste of the lightening
is the maximum amount of the energy that could be saved by the home systems. The
great benefits of the smart home is that it will increase the property value of
your home. (Helal & et.al, 2005)
Disadvantages of Converting the house from regular installation to
Smart home
There are various disadvantages
for the conversion of the house from regular installation to smart home and the
value of saving.
Slight Learning Curve
Cost
Reliability
Dependency on internet
Dependency on professionals
The biggest disadvantage for the conversion of house from
regular installation to smart home and the value of saving is the Cost. There
are different companies that are more expensive because all these companies offer
the Smart home systems. Only few of the peoples can afford this system. If
someone wants the Smart home system, it would be able to save the Good amounts.
Dependency on the internet is
also a disadvantage for the smart home because the essentials needs of smart home
systems are all about the internet. Someone might not take the control of smart
home without strong as well as good internet connections. There is not any
other methods that you access as the control to Smart Home systems if there is no
internet connection.
The dependency of the
professionals is also a disadvantage of converting the regular home installation
into the Smart Home because if there is any problem in the smart home, you just
can call a handyman to repair or manage by the dissuasion of the professionalism.
(Pvsbuilders.com, 2018)
Where is the best to install the
capacitor bank for best solution in the residential house or in the
substation on the bus bar?
For the best solution, the
capacitor bank is install in the substations on the bus bar .Because capacitors
are used for manufacturing or industrial user to reduce the penalty on an
electricity bill to have the small power factor. If the capacitor bank is, add
in our residential houses, it might be slightly reduce the transmission losses
for the supplier of electricity and the power consumption is not decrease
through adding the capacitors.
Install Capacitors bank in Substations on Bus bar
The capacitors bank is install
where the load is stable and continuous, then the global compensation can be
applied;
The capacitor bank is connected to
a bus bar on the LV distribution board of the installations and remains same in
the duration of the normal load. The advantages for this systems is that it
reduces the penalties of tariff for a great consumption of the kVAR.The demand
of the apparent power in KVA is reduces, for the standing charges
Conclusion on Converting the house from regular installation to Smart
home
Capacitor can be applied on the downstream
of the electrical systems for the metering point that have a same effect for
the upstream power factor. Installation
of the capacitor banks improved by the voltage level for the medium voltage bus
at high voltage substations that also lead the sales at these points. The LV capacitor
cost is less than an HV cost of the capacitor. The purpose of the research is to
increase the energy efficiency along with reducing the losses of electricity
energy through improving the power factor of the main supply in Kuwait building.
After the analysis and the data collected at the library, the total power consumption
is approximately 19%. Form the analysis, the capacitor bank return investment is
found about teh0.64 years that is supposed to be good achievements.
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house from regular installation to Smart home
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