blog.makezine.com - 1/22/2009
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Power usage monitors like the Kill-A-Watt are pretty cool, but what if you want to monitor usage for your whole house? What if you want to track usage in real time throughout the day, without stepping outside to read the power meter? What if you could do all this without messing with mains ...
picobay.com - 1/20/2009
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picobay.com —
Do-It-Yourself Smart Grid Monitor Brief project description This
post details a real-time web based household power usage...
chart. The end result is a live chart in a web page that updates every 10 seconds with the instantaneous power usage for my ...
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Real-time Web Based Power Charting
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DIY internet connected whole-house power monitor
SlashGear —
... appliance - such as sneakily greedy cellphone chargers and the like - but it does give an overview and, in time, let you build up an understanding of what normal levels are for you and what impact affect green measures have on your power use. If you’re not very handy with your electronics and coding, of course, you could go for something like the Wattson, which works in a very similar way, offers local and online feedback of power use, and costs around $138.
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