OpenEnergyMonitor.orgOpen source energy monitoring

@openenergymon, Trystan Lea, CleanwebUK September 2012

Sustainable EnergyTools to help us work towards sustainable energy in a way that adds up.

Energy Stacks based on DavidMacKay's book: withouthotair.com

My Energy Stack 201217% Sustainable Energy

2030?

Average

An open source technologyIs a technology where the source code, CAD drawings, technical documentation is openly available.

Open source Technologymovement

Freedom to doAll these things

By making it easy to build upon thework of others we can solve problemsfaster.

There is a real enjoyment in making and sharing.

empowerment

Through how-toGuides, available Code and designsIts possible to learn

CollaborationParticipationContribution

Innovation

Building technicalcapacity

inspiration

Free-willed Intrinsic motivation

The OpenEnergyMonitor system

Home Electricity Monitoring

My house: Electricity Reduction of ~47% over 4 years

Solar PV monitoring

Heat Pump MonitoringJohn Cantor, heatpump consultant

Remotely monitor heat pump performance

Identify problems

Optimise control by providing feedback

www.heatpumps.co.uk

RF Link

Ambient Temp probe

Solar PV

Battery

Core temperature probe

Winter 2010

Bee Hive MonitoringClive Hudson, Meirionnydd Bee Keepers

A 'normal' bee temperature week

Applications

University campus monitoring in France by

Baptise Gaultier

Brewery monitoring in Ireland by Eamonn

O'Brian

Mountain top astronomy observatory power quality

monitoring in Hawaii

Community Energy Audits – North Wales

Modules

TinyTX wireless temperature node + raspberry PI basestation by Martin, harizanov.com

Solar Immersion heater controller in development by Robin Emley and others

3-Phase monitoring by Robert Wall

Open source facilitates learningopenenergymonitor.org

Tutorials, How-to's

Source code on github

Hardware schematics an board files solderpad.

All under open source licence (GPL)

Forums, Thank you to everyone in the community!

Open source sustainable technologies

Technology that empowers us to participate in creating a future

where we live within ecological limits.