http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/ a blog on design & business Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:11:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/comment-page-1/#comment-21663 Real time energy monitoring | ToGadget , The Guide to Gadgets Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/#comment-21663 [...] complement uses images from a camera to lane changes on the appetite meter, which is afterwards fed by the network, converted to data and ported to the Google Powermeter. The [...] [...] complement uses images from a camera to lane changes on the appetite meter, which is afterwards fed by the network, converted to data and ported to the Google Powermeter. The [...]

]]> http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/comment-page-1/#comment-21626 Real-time energy monitoring | SquareCows Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:31:52 +0000 http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/#comment-21626 [...] system uses images from a camera to track changes on the power meter, which is then fed through the network, converted to data and ported to the Google Powermeter. The [...] [...] system uses images from a camera to track changes on the power meter, which is then fed through the network, converted to data and ported to the Google Powermeter. The [...]

]]> http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/comment-page-1/#comment-21619 Real time energy monitoring | SquareCows Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:22:02 +0000 http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/#comment-21619 [...] system uses images from a camera to track changes on the power meter, which is then fed through the network, converted to data and ported to the Google Powermeter. The [...] [...] system uses images from a camera to track changes on the power meter, which is then fed through the network, converted to data and ported to the Google Powermeter. The [...]

]]> http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/comment-page-1/#comment-21610 Zach Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:30:36 +0000 http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/#comment-21610 I suspect the IR data port needs to be free so the person who comes by to read the meter can use it, if they happen to have the right device for that. I suspect the IR data port needs to be free so the person who comes by to read the meter can use it, if they happen to have the right device for that.

]]> http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/comment-page-1/#comment-19243 Adam Casey Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:59 +0000 http://www.trackchanges.net/2009/08/05/reading-power-use-somehow/#comment-19243 Hooray for bureaucracy! There is a perfectly good optical port on the device, which uses light instead of copper to make a signal path (therefore no danger of an external device hurting the meter,) costs money for the manufacturer to include the firmware and circuitry, and is just sitting there, AND WE CAN'T USE IT because someone at NStar feels this would somehow void a lease agreement. Brilliant. Hooray for bureaucracy! There is a perfectly good optical port on the device, which uses light instead of copper to make a signal path (therefore no danger of an external device hurting the meter,) costs money for the manufacturer to include the firmware and circuitry, and is just sitting there, AND WE CAN’T USE IT because someone at NStar feels this would somehow void a lease agreement. Brilliant.

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