Surplus energy: Project Re-design

Hello Friends,

After a few months, i´d say years..., I´m back. Some people are still reading my old posts, and asking me questions, so, it´s time to continue the PHASE II.

The last prototype I implemented helped me to discover a lot of problems and challenges that we´re facing when we want to track every watt in your installation.

They´re:
- Initial State: Consumption patterns, Installed devices like heating system, ..
- Measurement: Know how much you produce, consume, and devices´s consumption
- Controlling: How to properly manage your energy.
- Consumption: Waste your energy, maximize your investment

The first challenge is: How can I measure the surplus energy with precision, real time, and from that, how I control the energy delivery to my devices.

In my previous project, I implemented my own energy meter. That consumed mostly all of my time in the project, so this time i´ll find something already done, and cheap....

So, Today i bought this item. I invite anyone interested to "enjoy" with that to order one.

I checked that this device has good properties we need:
- Directional measurement, negative or positive measurement
- Output of Data
- Control panel of your data
See detailed specs here: http://www.chinaenergymeter.com/1-1-1-sw-single-phase-electricity-meter.html


Now, next step is hooking an Arduino to the device, reading the output and implement the remote delivery of data to one or more remote devices.

I´ll post a better design of the project meanwhile I´m waiting the item.

Bye!!!