Electrical – Measure current of multiple loads with one sensor

The sensors are battery powered and so to preserve power the sensor circuit must remain "off" most of the time. This means that the sensor only transmits when needing to transmit i.e. when the door or window opens or closes. This can be achieved with a low power 433MHz transmitter and a low power micro like a PIC. The PIC wakes up when the door or window switch changes state OR just wakes up every 5 minutes or so based on a low power timer oscillator.

All the windows and doors use the same methodology and transmission frequency. One receiver picks up the transmission and because sensors only transmit infrequently, collisions are few. However if collisions do happen this is unknown to the transmitter so, each transmitter should wake up on a slightly different timebase to avoid continual collisions and give the system a decent chance of working.

Each transmitter/sensor needs to encode it's own address in the data being transmitted so the receiver knows which device is sending data. It can even transmit a bit that communicates the battery status or using a lower power ADC the battery voltage can be transmitted.

The receiving radio stays on all the time and presents a micro with serial information that is decoded to light the various LEDs. Not a trivial project but a good one to do.

I did a freezer alarm system for a shop based on this very system. each freezer used a 433MHz transmitter and PIC and each transmitted based on a 20 minute period. Should one freezer start to defrost, a central control activated an alarm.

Depending on what the goals of the 'project' are, so what you build or buy, what you're intending to learn, a split core current transformer is hard to beat.

It can be very cheap if the core is salvaged from a dead transformer.

It's safe, as it clamps over a wire, and while a toroidal core could give slightly better performance, that would need a mains cable disconnected and reconnected to thread it through the core, not cool if you're monitoring the incoming to the house, but more practical if just monitoring a power strip.

As long as you assemble the core with good attention to getting minimum air-gap, it's very tolerant technically.

The output gain is calculable from first principles, knowing the number of secondary turns and having a small enough burden resistor. Compare measured and theory would be an interesting result of the project.