Development of IoT Based Controlled Bench Power Generation System

The need for automation in the power sector is growing as technological advancement increases. Automatic control is required for tasks like turning on and off a power supply unit (inverter, generator, etc.). Therefore, this project aims to develop an IoT-based controlled bench power generation system. The study employed php scripting language, MySQL, and other web technologies to develop an IoT-based control program to resolve the issue and create a web application for interaction with the bench power supply used in this project. The web application interacted with a database which was the driver responsible for sending the Boolean values for switching or off to the physical power supply controller. The experimental findings showed that the IoT-based controlled bench power generation system is viable and fast in operations. From the analysis of the results compared with the manually operated generator, the performance is excellent, with a 75% deviation. The average time to start the IoT system is 28.28 s, and the manually operated power system with 261.6 s. This made it possible to develop a web application that, depending on the Wi-Fi network's availability, allowed users to manage a bench power supply from various locations with very little time and ease.