The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)

Re:The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017) by penagwin on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @02:27PM (#19852107)

I'm curious, is this a common problem? At least here in Michigan, our electric company essentially replaced all meters with smart meters for free, unless you choose to opt-out.

Power-measuring outlets do exist, Belkin has one under the WEMO brand for example. It's just that it generally makes far more sense (for the electric company) to put the meter in one spot, instead of every outlet.

You still have to have the mini-controllers communicate with the power company though, so I'm not sure what problem you'd be solving?

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Re:The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017) by mikepurvis on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:54PM (#19852871)

There's also Sense, which monitors for the distinct waveforms of your big inductive loads— washer, fridge, A/C, etc. I don't have one yet, but my colleague who does absolutely swears by it. Allegedly you basically get whole-home monitoring with a single tap at the panel:

https://sense.com/

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