Energy Alerter: a Power Monitoring System
How to measure the instantaneous power absorbed by the electrical system and send it to a display & sound a buzzer if max power is reached.
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Arduino - Arduino Ethernet Shield
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Project description
Introduction Some of us may have too many electric appliances operating at the same time so to pass the electrical power limit provided by our contract with the electric supplier. This leads to unpleasant “travels” to the energy meter to reattach the breaker. At least this is what happens in Italy. The last time I made up and down the stairs (I live at the second floor), I thought it would be really useful to have some device that would allow me to display the instantaneous power supplied to the household electric plant. So I would have been warned when the meter is going to “break away”…
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