Another CurrentCost presentation. Updated to put it in a bit of context, and to reflect some more recent hacking efforts Presented at BarCampLondon6 and BathCamp

1. Monitoring
yourTitle slide
electricity
dalelane.co.uk/blog

2. “smart metering”
Smart Metering – WHAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter

3. Smart Metering – WHY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6225938.stm

4. load
Smart Metering – WHY
shifting

5. Smart Metering – WHERE
http://www.travbuddy.com/

6. “…The Government has announced that
smartSmart will be rolled-out to all domestic
meters Metering – WHERE
customers by the end of 2020. It anticipates
an indicative timetable of around two years to
design and establish the full details of the
roll-out, followed by a ten-year roll-out period.
Advanced metering will be roll-out to larger
business customers over five years from
early 2009. The Government consulted
recently on a draft licence modification to
implement the requirement…”
http://www.berr.gov.uk/

7. Smart Metering – WHERE

8. Smart Metering – WHO
google.org/powermeter

9. But in the meantime…

10. CurrentCost

11. Inductive loop

12. Inductive clamp – Where to put it

13. Transmitter

14. Transmitter and clamp

15. Meter
http://flickr.com/photos/abirkill/2468194926/

16. Data socket
http://flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/2438688453/

17. Data cable

18. Data socket – connecting
RJ-45
TTL-level
serial data
RS232
USB
http://e.inste.in/2008/06/15/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-your-pc/

19. think serial
Drivers and connecting
ser = serial.Serial(port='COM20')
ccdata = ser.readline()

20. <msg>
<date>
<dsb>00030</dsb>
<hr>00</hr><min>20</min><sec>11</sec>
</date>
<src>
<name>CC02</name>
<id>00077</id>
<type>1</type>
<sver>1.06</sver>
</src>
<ch1>
<watts>00168</watts>
</ch1>
<ch2>
<watts>00000</watts>
</ch2>
Data
<ch3>
<watts>00000</watts>
</ch3>
<tmpr>25.6</tmpr>
<hist>
<hrs>
<h02>000.3</h02>
....
<h26>003.1</h26>
</hrs>
<days>
<d01>0014</d01>
....
<d31>0000</d31>
</days>
<mths>
<m01>0000</m01>
....
<m12>0000</m12>
</mths>
<yrs>
<y1>0000000</y1>
....
<y4>0000000</y4>
</yrs>
</hist>
http://cumbers.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/breakdown-of-currentcost-xml-output/
</msg>

21. <msg>
<date>
<dsb>00030</dsb>
<hr>00</hr><min>20</min><sec>11</sec>
</date>
<src>
<name>CC02</name>
now
<id>00077</id>
<type>1</type>
<sver>1.06</sver>
</src>
<ch1>
<watts>00168</watts>
</ch1>
<ch2>
<watts>00000</watts>
</ch2>
Data – annotated
<ch3>
<watts>00000</watts>
</ch3>
<tmpr>25.6</tmpr>
<hist>
<hrs>
<h02>000.3</h02>
....
<h26>003.1</h26>
</hrs>
<days>
<d01>0014</d01>
....
history
<d31>0000</d31>
</days>
<mths>
<m01>0000</m01>
....
<m12>0000</m12>
</mths>
<yrs>
<y1>0000000</y1>
....
<y4>0000000</y4>
</yrs>
</hist>
http://cumbers.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/breakdown-of-currentcost-xml-output/
</msg>

22. CurrentCost apps – my Python app

23. CurrentCost apps – my Python app
http://code.google.com/p/currentcostgui/

24. Using with a Slug
use Net::MySQL;
my $mysql = Net::MySQL->new(
database => 'currentcostdb',
user => 'dalelane',
password => 'myPassw0rd'
);
my $insertquery = quot;INSERT INTO currentcostdl (power) VALUES ($watts)quot;;
$mysql->query($insertquery);
$mysql->close;
http://flickr.com/photos/dalelane/2509049808/

25. CurrentCost bill
+=============================================+
Your CurrentCost bill for 2008-5-27
Electricity usage 4.9802 units
Cost == £0.4874
Standing charge £0.1582
---------------------------------------
TOTAL COST FOR 2008-5-27 : £ 0.65
+=============================================+
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=273

26. Identifying appliances
<ccupdate>
<WDiff>9</WWDiff>
<descr>XBox 360 - standby</descr>
</ccupdate>
<ccupdate>
<WDiff>55</WWDiff>
<descr>ThinkPad</descr>
</ccupdate>
<ccupdate>
<WDiff>54</WWDiff>
<descr>ThinkPad</descr>
</ccupdate>
<ccupdate>
<WDiff>20</WWDiff>
<descr>BT Vision</descr>
</ccupdate>
<ccupdate>
<WDiff>82</WWDiff>
<descr>TV</descr>
</ccupdate>
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=276

27. Identifying appliances – Google’s
way
http://www.google.org/powermeter/howitworks.html

28. CurrentCost on twitter
http://twitter.com/andy_house

29. Google charts
http://rooreynolds.com/2008/05/09/current-cost-charting-fun/
http://knolleary.net/2008/05/05/power-graphing/

30. Floppy’s system tray app
http://www.floppy.org.uk/2008/8/22/some-successful-currentcost-hacking

31. Realtime graph
http://realtime.ngi.ibm.com/powermeter/dalelane.html

32. Dojo dashboard
http://realtime.ngi.ibm.com/currentcost/newmeters/CurrentCost/ccDashboard.html?dashboarduser=dalelane

33. http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1214
CurrentCost on pachube

34. http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1490
CO2 from CurrentCost on pachube

35. Android pachube app
http://flickr.com/photos/dalelane/3074171640/

36. Symbian app
http://twitpic.com/1smlz

37. iPhone app
http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/current-cost-monitoring-from-an-iphone/

38. Arduino
http://e.inste.in/2008/06/16/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-an-arduino/

39. Arduino with LEDs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barnybug/2604903353/

40. Ambient orb
http://knolleary.net/2009/01/05/monitoring-energy-use-with-an-orb/

41. rrdtool
http://www.jibble.org/currentcost/

42. techtoniq app
http://twitter.com/mardibloke/status/1255687045 http://www.techtoniq.com/products/CurrentCostAgent

43. CurrentCost Live – Xbox Live

44. CurrentCost Live – achievements
Absolute values
Lowest single reading
Lowest total power use
Lowest average use Personal improvements
… Lowest percentage of
personal average
Highest reduction in use
…
http://currentcostlive.appspot.com/

45. CurrentCost Live – twitter

46. CurrentCost Live – twitter

47. CurrentCost Live – google widget
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=283

48. CurrentCost Live – television
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=283

49. AMEE
http://www.amee.com/?p=640

50. “classic”
CurrentCost Meters – classic

51. http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=389
CurrentCost Meters – envi
“envi”

52. What’s next?
http://www.currentcost.com/product-cc128.html

53. Code
http://code.google.com/p/currentcost/

54. dalelane.co.uk/blog