A wireless EnergyCam setup with a Raspberry Pi to monitor the energy usage

FAST EnergyCam: The quick and inexpensive way to turn your conventional meter into a smart metering device (http://www.fastforward.ag/eng/index_eng.html)

Hardware:

• Raspberry Pi

• FAST EnergyCam RF and FAST USB Communication Interface to configure the Energycam prior to installation (available at http://umwelt-messtechnik.de/index.php?cat=c91_Smart-Grid-Komponenten-Smart-Grid-Komponenten.html)

• wireless M-Bus USB Stick (2 manufacturers are supported)

  • IMST IM871A-USB Stick ( available at http://www.tekmodul.de/index.php?id=shop-wireless_m-bus_oms_module or http://webshop.imst.de/funkmodule/im871a-usb-wireless-mbus-usb-adapter-868-mhz.html)
  • AMBER Wireless M-Bus USB Adapter (http://amber-wireless.de/406-1-AMB8465-M.html)

• EDIMAX EW-7811UN Wireless USB Adapter

Software:

• dygraph (https://github.com/danvk/dygraphs)

Features:

• The application shows you all received wireless M-Bus packages.
• You can add meters that are watched. The received values of these are written into csv files and presented on the webserver.
• The energy usage is shown as an interactive, zoomable chart of time on a website.
• install.txt describes how to configure the raspberry and compile the sources

Trademarks

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