Load Shedding Control Using GSM

From the past few years,there is an enormous growth in wireless home automation systems.There are so many high-tech machines and equipment's which are introduced and are controlled by the user from any location.

Load Shedding is basically the deliberate shutdown of electric power in apart or parts of a power-distribution system,generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system. 

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 What is Load Shedding?

 Load shedding happens when there is not enough electricity available to meet the demand of all customers, and an electricity (public) utility will interrupt the energy supply to certain areas. It is a last resort to balance electricity supply and demand.

Even though load shedding happens to stop the entire country from experiencing a permanent blackout (by the collapsing of the whole electricity supply grid) load shedding still has major negative effects on the economy in a country.

Load shedding is a real problem in the developing and emerging markets and takes a big hit on the economy. It is affecting the GDP economic growth and is costing small businesses and corporations billions a year. One of the solutions to lower the amount of load shedding is the use of renewable energy (wind and solar energy) sources and using the appliances wisely by remotely controlling and monitoring the usage.

This has showed to be true in South Africa, where if it wasn’t for solar and wind energy even more load shedding would have been implemented. 

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Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. It was first deployed in Finland in December 1991. By the mid-2010 s, it became a global standard for mobile communications achieving over 90% market share, and operating in over 193 countries and territories.

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2G networks developed as a replacement for first generation (1G) analog cellular networks. The GSM standard originally described a digital, circuit-switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony. This expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit-switched transport, then by packet data transport via General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), and Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE).

Subsequently, the 3GPP developed third-generation (3G) UMTS standards, followed by fourth-generation (4G) LTE Advanced standards, which do not form part of the ETSI GSM standard.