Trystan and Glyn from the Open Energy Monitor project presented a 100% open source home energy monitoring platform based on the Nanode.
Wireless sensors collect data and send it via radio to a RF->ethernet base station. The base station saves the data to a server, either the Open Energy Monitor’s servers or a self-hosted copy.
Energy consumption is displayed on interactive online graphs, or via a wireless graphical LCD screen. The project is nicely packaged in a laser cut case, and kits are now available.
We saw a half-dozen presentations by developers and users of home energy monitoring applications or services at Home Camp 4. What made the Open Energy Monitor stand out is that everything is 100% open source, from hardware to the server applications. The vast majority of server backends, the part that collects data and displays graphs, are closed source software-as-service jobs like Pachube. The Open Energy Monitor software package is completely open, host with them or host your own, the perfect solution for open hardware.
If you’re interested in open source energy monitoring, this is definitely the package to check out.
I like the idea of this project the current energy monitor I am using is the free rubbish the utitily company sent me. How ever when I click the link for the website it says account suspended! Have they forgot to pay the bill?.