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Re:Wattvision: The Smart Energy Sensor by CamperBob2 on Monday August 13, 2012 @09:20PM (#4378940)
Something like that, yes. Combine that concept with the notion of the SWR bridge, and there's no reason you couldn't do vector analysis, rather than just scalar sensing.
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Re:Wattvision: The Smart Energy Sensor by sitkack on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @04:13PM (#4387962)
Why not build what you describe, clamp it around the main feed to the house and have it join the wifi network, it can pubsub the data anywhere at that point.

This would be an order of magnitude better than just reading the meter.

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Re:Wattvision: The Smart Energy Sensor by CamperBob2 on Friday August 17, 2012 @06:57PM (#4399256)
Yeah, I think we'll see the power companies doing that themselves before too long, if they aren't already.
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