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[_] [OT] Home Energy Consumption Meter

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 14:17:42 BST 2008

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Darren Beale <bealers at gmail.com> wrote:
> does anyone have any experience of using a household electricity usage
> meter such as this one:
> http://www.reuk.co.uk/Electrisave-Wireless-Electricity-Monitor.htm

Not yet but, when I do, I want to punt the data towards the internets.
Dale Lane has a good roundup of what his fellow IBMers have been up
to:
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=265

The CurrentCost meter has a serial port, but you can hack it to get
USB or Ethernet connectivity, attach it to a low-power computer and
aggregate the data, apparently.

Tim