OpenEnergyMonitor.orgOpen-source energy monitoring

@openenergymon, Glyn Hudson, SAW Bangor, Lighting Talks Jan 2013

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

Energy Stacks based on DavidMacKay's book: withouthotair.comTrystan's Stack 2012

Only 17% Sustainable Energy

2030Target*

2012 UK Average

2012 Trystan

*CAT zerocarbonbritain.com/

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

Learning through how-to-guides, freely available source code and hardware designs

CollaborationParticipationContribution

Innovation

Building technicalcapacity

inspiration

Free-willed Intrinsic motivation

http://shop.openenergymonitor.com

The OpenEnergyMonitor System

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/emontx

http://solderpad.com/openenergymon/emontx/

An open-source web app for processing, logging and visualising energy, temperature and other environmental data

●Open-source, downloadable and installable on your own server

●Specifically designed with processing and visualising energy data in mind.

● Written in php, mysql, javascript, jquery

● Follows MVC architecture

emoncms.orgopenenergymonitor.org/emon/emoncmsgithub.com/emoncms

Visual Dashboard Editor

Drop & drop, customisable graphs, re-sizeable widgets, buttons and live feeds

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/emonbase/raspberrypie

Raspberry Pi

Home Electricity Monitoring

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

More than 2kW

less than 2kW

less than 500W

kWh

Fridge freezer & standby

Lights and computers

less than 500W

Kettle & immersion heater

Solar PV monitoring

Heat Pump MonitoringJohn Cantor, heat pump consultant

●Remotely monitor heat pump performance

●Identify problems

●Optimise control by providing feedback

www.heatpumps.co.ukhttp://openenergymonitor.org/emon/applications/heatpump

RF Link

Ambient Temp probe

Solar PV

Battery

Core temperature probe

Winter 2010

Bee Hive MonitoringClive Hudson, Meirionnydd Bee Keepers

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/beehive/v2

A 'normal' bee temperature week

Bee hive swarm

●Half of the bees leave the hive

●Bad news for the bee keeper

●Possible to detect on the monitor

Core temperature rises above 34 degrees for first time all year

●Alert bee keeper via SMS to take action

Swarm

Open technologycommonsopenenergymonitor.org

●Tutorials, How-to's

●Source code on github

●Hardware schematics an board files solderpad.

●All under open source licence (GPL)

●Forums – dev discussion, questions, bugs..

Open-source sustainable technologies

Technology that empowers us to participate in creating a future

where we live within ecological limits.

OpenEnergyMonitor.orgOpen-source energy monitoring

@openenergymon, Glyn Hudson, SAW Bangor, Lighting Talks Jan 2013