Monitoring of electricity consumption
03/04/2025
Seven years ago, numerunique designed a system to monitor electricity consumption in real time. Today, with the skyrocketing prices of electricity, this is even more needed.
The 1.0 system provided visibility into total instantaneous power consumption. Yet it was somewhat frustrating as it didn’t give a precise clue about where energy went.
Fortunately, the sensor burned out.
This sparked the drive to advance to an entirely new level: a sensor for each circuit breaker! The first step, and no small feat, has been achieved with a new electrical panel that fulfills this objective. Needless to say, such work must be done by a professional electrician -and a highly skilled one at that.
Here are the main steps:
- Dismantle the previous electrical panel,
- Dispatch the wires between the frames of two new electrical panels,
- Make the electrical connections,
- Secure the lids.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
With sensors in place, there is nothing left but to fetch the data (and exploit it). Going from 1 to 36 is not as simple a task as it may seem, especially the electronic part.
That will take some interesting thinking -and time.