Adaptive Control and Monitoring System for Real Time Electrical and Water Flow Management in Building Networks
This is a project that is developing a smart building monitoring system aimed at ensuring safety, efficiency, and optimal resource management. The system integrates automatic monitoring of electrical trippers and water flow to prevent hazards, minimize resource wastage, and enhance predictive maintenance. Electrical trippers are protected against overloads and switching failures with the help of real-time monitoring, immediately sending a remote alert for intervention before hazards can occur. Water flow sensors analyze consumption patterns per room, check leaks, and minimize wastage, ensuring all water is accounted for. A sensor network will continuously gather real-time data and forward it to a central monitoring unit, which will notify users via mobile notifications or SMS in case of detected anomalies. With these monitoring components integrated, the system enables the proactive management of a utility that decreases downtime and elongates the electrical and plumbing systems lifespan. Automated alerts provide faster response time, keeping them aware that emergencies arise so that the facility managers and residents can act on them before they escalate, ensuring that safety and operational efficiency are enhanced. Predictive maintenance of the system ensures an optimization of resources, early warnings of impending failures, and reduced costly repairs by preventing electromechanical breakdown. In addition, it minimizes the risks entailed by glitches due to aging infrastructure by enabling real-time analytics and condition-based decision-making, along with seamless integration with existing building management systems. This energy-efficient means of continuous monitoring also fosters sustainability by decreasing operational cost, lowering raw material wastages, and hence, reducing their environmental impact and compliance with safety and efficiency standards. Electric tripper monitoring in combination with water flow detection enhances risk mitigation, prevents the need for unnecessary repairs, and supports smarter maintenance practices. Such decisions and corrective actions are made using automated monitoring of systems, thus preventing the misallocation of repair resources. Smart monitoring, recognizing that buildings are becoming increasingly dependent on technological solutions, is targeted at ensuring operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability. This project serves as the foundation for the future intelligent building system, which will include automation. Real-time analytics, in cooperation with predictive maintenance, ensures a live, safer, efficient, and resilient environment for living and working. Integration of intelligent technology in buildings ensures optimal resource utilization, new forms of sustainability, and a smarter, resilient urban infrastructure.
Authors
- S. Kiruthika (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4961-9282)
- K. Mahendran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-8027)
- T. Rajesh
- M Nandhakumar
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iciccs65191.2025.10985034
- Primary Topic
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00