OpenEnergyMonitor is a project to develop open-source energy monitoring tools to help us relate to our use of energy, our energy systems and the challenge of sustainable energy.

- Started in early 2009, initial concept based onAn adaptation of CliffJao and Xi Guo's PowerBox. Started the website and blogged about hardware and software development sharing all hardware design and code.

- 2010 to 2011 we ran a community energy monitoring project, 20 households in North Wales. 3 new open hardware units: emontx, emonth, nanoderf. First version of emoncms.

- 2012 Opened the OpenEnergyMonitor open hardware shop and our open hardware business Megni.

- 2013 saw the start of our collaboration with Carbon Coop in Manchester with another community energy monitoring project and the development of an open source building energy modelling software tool. First versions of SMT hardware.

-2014 again more open hardware revisions. Development of custom high performance timeseries data engines. A SD card optimised version of emoncms for long life.

- 2015 already a lot of progress! The EmonPi, new radio module. Open source zero carbon energy system model with CAT. Community smart grid project with Carbon Coop.

All through this time the community around OpenEnergyMonitor has been growing, the forums are very active and we have shipped over 7000 order around the world

OpenEnergyMonitor is a project to develop open-source energy monitoring tools to help us relate to our use of energy, our energy systems and the challenge of sustainable energy.

We are in the middle of this large energy transition. In the last 6 years global wind power increased 2.5x 121GW to 318GW, global solar capacity increased from 16GW to 185GW.

More and more people now have an element of renewable energy generation as part of their lives whether its household solar or a community wind turbine, electric transport and supporting technologies such as more efficient housing and heating systems are all becoming more common place.

Energy Monitoring can help tell the story of this new zero carbon energy system with realtime information on renewable supply and energy demand.

Is my electricity coming from renewable energy now?

When is a good time to charge my car today or do my washing?

How much energy do I use? Can I reduce my energy use?

How does my energy use compare to other people?

How much solar, wind turbines do I need to supply my demand? Do I invest more in solar and wind turbines or use less energy?

How much energy storage do I need? If I optimise by use to the variable supply or not?

I read about zero carbon energy system scenarios, but what does that mean for me in my life, with the way I use energy?

Open source energy monitoring and associated energy planning tools are tools to help us understand, plan, test and manage our new zero carbon energy system in an open way that empowers people to get involved with where their energy comes from and how it is used.

OpenEnergyMonitorThe enabling Open source Hardware and Software infrastructure

EmonTx- 4x AC circuits- AC Voltage (real power)- DS18B20 temperature- Pulse counting- ATMega328 (Arduino)- RFM12/69 433Mhz transciever

EmonTHTemperature & humidity node- DS18B20, DHT22- ATMega328 (Arduino)- RFM12/69 433Mhz transciever

EmonGLCDWireless livingroom display- ST7565 LCD + backlight- Red/green ambient LED's- DS18B20 temperature + LDR- ATMega328 (Arduino)- RFM12/69 433Mhz transciever

OpenEnergyMonitor Open Hardware

EmonTx Shield- 4x AC circuits- AC Voltage (real power)- DS18B20 temperature- Pulse counting- RFM12/69 433Mhz transciever- Arduino shield footprint

EmonBaseRaspberryPI based basestationWith ATMega328 (Arduino) + RFM12/69 433Mhz transcieverRFM12/69Pi adapter board

EmonPiCombines the EmonTx with the EmonBase into one self contained unit.

Home Energy Monitoring

An example setup using the emontx, raspberrypi base station and emoncms.org

Emoncms

Open source web application for visualising energy and other environmental data.

- We provide Emoncms.org as a hosted service.

- Emoncms can be installed on your own server.

- Emoncms can run on the raspberrypi logging data to the SD card.

Written in PHP & Javascript. Custom high performance PHP based timeseries data engines. MYSQL and Redis for meta data. Python version of emoncms on the way.

OpenEnergyMonitor project

OpenEnergyMonitor is an open source software and hardware project.

We are an active online community, built up slowly over 6 years interested in open source energy monitoring.

A lot of people with considerable expertise in electronic engineering, software design and energy.

We share all of our software and hardware designs under open source licence on github

https://github.com/openenergymonitor/https://github.com/emoncms

As well as providing documentation on how the system works, from circuit design to the physics of AC power measurement.

Open Hardware Business (Megni)

The open source project OpenEnergyMonitor is supported by the open hardware business selling open hardware products.

3 full time employees, 2 part time employees

Over 7000 orders to 70% outside of the UK, used in 70 countries.

PCB's manufacture and SMT assembly in the UK.

Open Hardware business supports the Open source project not the other way around!

Open hardware business is an effective modelfor making and distributing technology and providing employment while supporting open source development.

Blurs the traditional lines between “business”, academic research, education.

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