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Another CurrentCost presentation. Updated to put it in a bit of context, and to reflect some more recent hacking efforts Presented at BarCampLondon6 and BathCamp
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Monitoring yourelectricity
dalelane.co.uk/blog
Title slide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter
Smart Metering – WHAT“smart metering”
Smart Metering – WHY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6225938.stm
Smart Metering – WHY load shifting
Smart Metering – WHERE
http://www.travbuddy.com/
Smart Metering – WHERE“…The Government has announced that smart meters will be rolled-out to all domestic customers by the end of 2020. It anticipates an indicative timetable of around two years to design and establish the full details of the roll-out, followed by a ten-year roll-out period.
Advanced metering will be roll-out to larger business customers over five years from early 2009. The Government consulted recently on a draft licence modification to implement the requirement…”
http://www.berr.gov.uk/
Smart Metering – WHERE
Smart Metering – WHO
google.org/powermeter
But in the meantime…
CurrentCost
Inductive loop
Inductive clamp – Where to put it
Transmitter
Transmitter and clamp
Meter
http://flickr.com/photos/abirkill/2468194926/
Data socket
http://flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/2438688453/
Data cable
Data socket – connecting
http://e.inste.in/2008/06/15/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-your-pc/
RJ-45
TTL-levelserial data
RS232
USB
Drivers and connectingthink serial
ser = serial.Serial(port='COM20')ccdata = ser.readline()
http://cumbers.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/breakdown-of-currentcost-xml-output/
Data
<msg> <date> <dsb>00030</dsb> <hr>00</hr><min>20</min><sec>11</sec> </date> <src> <name>CC02</name> <id>00077</id> <type>1</type> <sver>1.06</sver> </src> <ch1> <watts>00168</watts> </ch1> <ch2> <watts>00000</watts> </ch2> <ch3> <watts>00000</watts> </ch3> <tmpr>25.6</tmpr> <hist> <hrs> <h02>000.3</h02> .... <h26>003.1</h26> </hrs> <days> <d01>0014</d01> .... <d31>0000</d31> </days> <mths> <m01>0000</m01> .... <m12>0000</m12> </mths> <yrs> <y1>0000000</y1> .... <y4>0000000</y4> </yrs> </hist></msg>
<msg> <date> <dsb>00030</dsb> <hr>00</hr><min>20</min><sec>11</sec> </date> <src> <name>CC02</name> <id>00077</id> <type>1</type> <sver>1.06</sver> </src> <ch1> <watts>00168</watts> </ch1> <ch2> <watts>00000</watts> </ch2> <ch3> <watts>00000</watts> </ch3> <tmpr>25.6</tmpr> <hist> <hrs> <h02>000.3</h02> .... <h26>003.1</h26> </hrs> <days> <d01>0014</d01> .... <d31>0000</d31> </days> <mths> <m01>0000</m01> .... <m12>0000</m12> </mths> <yrs> <y1>0000000</y1> .... <y4>0000000</y4> </yrs> </hist></msg> http://cumbers.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/breakdown-of-currentcost-xml-output/
now
history
Data – annotated
CurrentCost apps – my Python app
CurrentCost apps – my Python app
http://code.google.com/p/currentcostgui/
Using with a Slug
http://flickr.com/photos/dalelane/2509049808/
use Net::MySQL; my $mysql = Net::MySQL->new( database => 'currentcostdb', user => 'dalelane', password => 'myPassw0rd'); my $insertquery = "INSERT INTO currentcostdl (power) VALUES ($watts)"; $mysql->query($insertquery); $mysql->close;
CurrentCost bill
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=273
+=============================================+ Your CurrentCost bill for 2008-5-27 Electricity usage 4.9802 units Cost == £0.4874 Standing charge £0.1582 --------------------------------------- TOTAL COST FOR 2008-5-27 : £ 0.65+=============================================+
Identifying appliances
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=276
<ccupdate> <WDiff>9</WWDiff> <descr>XBox 360 - standby</descr></ccupdate><ccupdate> <WDiff>55</WWDiff> <descr>ThinkPad</descr></ccupdate><ccupdate> <WDiff>54</WWDiff> <descr>ThinkPad</descr></ccupdate><ccupdate> <WDiff>20</WWDiff> <descr>BT Vision</descr></ccupdate><ccupdate> <WDiff>82</WWDiff> <descr>TV</descr></ccupdate>
Identifying appliances – Google’s way
http://www.google.org/powermeter/howitworks.html
CurrentCost on twitter
http://twitter.com/andy_house
Google charts
http://rooreynolds.com/2008/05/09/current-cost-charting-fun/
http://knolleary.net/2008/05/05/power-graphing/
http://www.floppy.org.uk/2008/8/22/some-successful-currentcost-hacking
Floppy’s system tray app
http://realtime.ngi.ibm.com/powermeter/dalelane.html
Realtime graph
Dojo dashboard
http://realtime.ngi.ibm.com/currentcost/newmeters/CurrentCost/ccDashboard.html?dashboarduser=dalelane
CurrentCost on pachubehttp://www.pachube.com/feeds/1214
CO2 from CurrentCost on pachubehttp://www.pachube.com/feeds/1490
Android pachube app
http://flickr.com/photos/dalelane/3074171640/
Symbian app
http://twitpic.com/1smlz
iPhone app
http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/current-cost-monitoring-from-an-iphone/
Arduino
http://e.inste.in/2008/06/16/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-an-arduino/
Arduino with LEDs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barnybug/2604903353/
Ambient orb
http://knolleary.net/2009/01/05/monitoring-energy-use-with-an-orb/
rrdtool
http://www.jibble.org/currentcost/
techtoniq app
http://twitter.com/mardibloke/status/1255687045 http://www.techtoniq.com/products/CurrentCostAgent
CurrentCost Live – Xbox Live
CurrentCost Live – achievements
Personal improvements
Lowest percentage of personal average
Highest reduction in use
…
Absolute values
Lowest single reading
Lowest total power use
Lowest average use
…
http://currentcostlive.appspot.com/
CurrentCost Live – twitter
CurrentCost Live – twitter
CurrentCost Live – google widget
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=283
CurrentCost Live – television
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=283
AMEE
http://www.amee.com/?p=640
CurrentCost Meters – classic “classic”
CurrentCost Meters – envi
“envi”
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=389
What’s next?
http://www.currentcost.com/product-cc128.html
Code
http://code.google.com/p/currentcost/
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