Method and System for Monitoring and Analyzing Electric Power Consumption by Electrical Appliances Using WiFi Access Point as a Central Hub

A computer-implemented method of collecting, monitoring, and analyzing power consumption information associated with individual electrical appliances, the method comprising:

• establishing, by an application stored in a non-transitory memory of a communication hub device and executable by a processor of the communication hub device, wireless communication links with respective ones of a plurality of electrical metering-capable devices, each electrically coupled to one or more of a plurality of electrical appliances and comprising one or more sensors for sensing at least one of a current or a voltage, wherein the plurality electrical metering-capable devices comprise at least one of a smart circuit breaker or a smart plug;
• displaying, by the application, via a first user interface (UI), an indication of the plurality of electrical metering-capable devices based on the established wireless communication links;
• receiving, by the application, via the UI, a mapping between the plurality of electrical appliances and the plurality of electrical metering-capable devices;
• receiving, by the application, from the one or more sensors at individual ones of the plurality of electrical metering-capable devices, sensing data comprising at least one of current or voltage consumption information;
• associating, by the application, based on the mapping, individual ones of the plurality of electrical appliances with respective sensing data;
• calculating, by the application, a power consumption for the individual ones of the plurality of electrical appliances based on the respective sensing data;
• and
• outputting, by the application, to a second UI, an indication of the calculated power consumption for the individual ones of the plurality of electrical appliances.

A method comprising:

• establishing, by an application stored in a non-transitory memory of a communication hub device and executable by a processor of the communication hub device, wireless communication links with respective ones of a plurality of smart circuit breakers associated with a home, wherein each of the plurality of smart circuit breakers electrically couples an electric main of the home to one or more of a plurality of electrical appliances associated with the home and comprises one or more sensors for sensing at least one of a current or a voltage;
• receiving, by the application, a mapping between each of the plurality of electrical appliances and a corresponding one of the plurality of smart circuit breakers, the mapping being based on a respective electric coupling;
• receiving, by the application, from individual ones of the plurality of smart circuit breakers, sensing data comprising at least one of current or voltage consumption information;
• associating, by the application, based on the mapping, at least one electrical appliance of the plurality of electrical appliances with respective sensing data;
• calculating, by the application, power consumption information for the at least one electrical appliance based on the respective sensing data;
• detecting, by the application, an anomaly based on a comparison of the power consumption information of the at least one electrical appliance to reference power consumption data;
• and
• transmitting, by the application to a user device, a notification of the detected anomaly.