  Human population are striving against energy-related issues that not only
affects society and the development of the world, but also causes global
warming. A variety of broad approaches have been developed by both industry and
the research community. However, there is an ever increasing need for
comprehensive, end-to-end solutions aimed at transforming human behavior rather
than device metrics and benchmarks. In this paper, a micro-moment-based smart
plug system is proposed as part of a larger multi-appliance energy efficiency
program. The smart plug, which includes two sub-units: the power consumption
unit and environmental monitoring unit collect energy consumption of appliances
along with contextual information, such as temperature, humidity, luminosity
and room occupancy respectively. The plug also allows home automation
capability. With the accompanying mobile application, end-users can visualize
energy consumption data along with ambient environmental information. Current
implementation results show that the proposed system delivers cost-effective
deployment while maintaining adequate computation and wireless performance.
