Let’s interface our Energy Meter with Internet to bring measurements to the ThingSpeak platform and see the results in convenient graphs. A few posts ago, we introduced the MCP39F511 integrated circuit, capable of performing electrical measurements in single-phase electrical systems through the FT1346M board. We have integrated it with the GSM board and…
It monitors the electricity consumption and sends the detected data to the cloud through the GSM cellular network; it is based on an Arduino Mega equipped with GSM Shield and a board on which the measurement board is mounted. Second and final instalment. In the previous post on Open Electronics, we have proposed…
It monitors electricity consumption and sends the detected data to the cloud through the GSM cellular network; it is based on an Arduino Mega equipped with GSM Shield and an absorption detector board. First instalment. Monitoring the electricity consumption of your home or business is an increasingly topical issue. The electrical measurements made,…
When the instantaneous power consumption exceeds the set values, it selectively disconnects the users, in order to prevent the electric meter to cut the power to disconnect. The management of the electricity users at home, intended as the possibility to define the operating priorities and to momentarily disconnect the ones that may be…
It enables a selective disconnection of a maximum of 7 users, once the maximum power set is exceeded, and by selecting the priorities, so to disconnect the less important ones first. Supervising the electricity, intended as both the monitoring and the management and even as a possible limitation and optimisation, is a topical issue…
In the first installment, you had the opportunity of learning about our energy meter, and of learning about its details, with special attention the technical ones. Our energy meter is based on the coupling – by means of two measuring transformers – to an integrated circuit, that enables the detection of the values as…
Thanks to an innovative module, it analyses the electrical grid parameters and the consumption, by supplying them – via USB – to a computer, on which a dedicated software enables to display, collect and use the data for different applications. First installment. It is common to worry about how much electrical energy is consumed,…
We present the candidature of Mr. Michele Mancini for the TiDiGino Contest. He proposes us a recent application with Arduino: Real-Time Energy Monitor This is a simple power meter to analize the current consuming in a house using the led indicator of a house energy meter. Reading the red led of a home energy counters…
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