Hello everybody...my first post so please take it easy on me. I am very keen to get into more accurately monitoring my electricity consumption and was wondering are there any off the shelf dataloggers that can count the LED flashes from my electricity meter. I really would like to have historical data like on the web page at http://www.bwired.nl/stroom.asp and would also like the unit to be ethernet or wifi enabled. Please can someone offer some advice to me please.
Thanking you all
Curleous
Electricity monitoring
Electricity monitoring
Hi Curleous,
www.Rfxcom.com is at this moment developing a new wireless power monitor. the manual is already on there site at http://www.rfxcom.com/RFXPower.pdf. And on this site there are also some self made energy monitors described, these are not wireless but mostly with 1-wire.
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?T ... rms=energy
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=101
http://www.bwired.nl/stroom.asp click on "How is it done"
Pieter
www.Rfxcom.com is at this moment developing a new wireless power monitor. the manual is already on there site at http://www.rfxcom.com/RFXPower.pdf. And on this site there are also some self made energy monitors described, these are not wireless but mostly with 1-wire.
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?T ... rms=energy
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=101
http://www.bwired.nl/stroom.asp click on "How is it done"
Pieter
Electricity monitoring
Hello out there.
I have just been looking into data collection for a couple days now, so I know very little. But still, it appears there is nothing reasonably priced for collecting electric power usage, neither at the "socket" where appliances are plugged into the wall nor at the "terminal box", where all the power switches are.
Do you think there would be much of a demand for such a product - for example, a socket which has built in "through the power wire" networking to communicate power usage for that socket? Or maybe one-wire circuit breaker, so the power usage on each circuit breaker could be easily gathered in the terminal box? It is odd that you need to clamp some kind of clamp on a power cable and leave it hanging there, especially if that costs over a hundred US dollars. Isn't there a more elegant, low cost solution than what is out there?
Should a new product be developed?
Chalrie
I have just been looking into data collection for a couple days now, so I know very little. But still, it appears there is nothing reasonably priced for collecting electric power usage, neither at the "socket" where appliances are plugged into the wall nor at the "terminal box", where all the power switches are.
Do you think there would be much of a demand for such a product - for example, a socket which has built in "through the power wire" networking to communicate power usage for that socket? Or maybe one-wire circuit breaker, so the power usage on each circuit breaker could be easily gathered in the terminal box? It is odd that you need to clamp some kind of clamp on a power cable and leave it hanging there, especially if that costs over a hundred US dollars. Isn't there a more elegant, low cost solution than what is out there?
Should a new product be developed?
Chalrie