Systems packaged and sold to homeowners for remote environmental and video monitoring pretty much uniformly suck -- expensive, proprietary and often Windows only. It turns out that hardware designed for use in monitoring datacenters and telco closets is much cheaper, more usable and far more extensible and scalable. This setup shows an APC Netbotz purchased via Ebay. The system monitors a huge range of environmental values and has a massive array of add-on sensors, detectors and cameras. It works quite nicely and can be controlled/monitored 100% via a secure internet connection.

Y axis is kW [thanks, ckindt]

X axis is time on 28 Feb 08.

Made with The Energy Detective and gnuplot.

You can compare this with a day we were not home.

According to my electrical utility, Toronto Hydro, I use an average of 18 kWh each day.

I wrote a small program that fixes the 12-hour AM/PM times, so I updated this graph

with similar data presented more correctly.

CocoonTech Thread: www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=9157&st=0

Mister House thread: article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.misterhouse.user/22561.

# A gnuplot script, fixed.plt

#

set terminal png giant size 800,600 nocrop

# set terminal dumb

set output "FTED-s-28Feb08.png"

set title "TED per second results, 28 Feb 2008"

set xdata time

# set timefmt is for INPUT

# 1205349849

# set timefmt "%s"

# 2008-03-12 15:06:56

# set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

set timefmt "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"

# 2008-03-12

# set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d"

#

# set format x is for OUTPUT

# set format x "%0d%b" # 23Mar

# set format x "%b" # Mar

set pointsize 0.2

set format x "%H:%M" # 23:11

set ylabel "kW"

set xlabel "Time"

set datafile separator ","

# "28/02/2008 00:00:46","0.52","0.05","119.4"

plot "/mnt/archivist/FTED-s-28Feb08.csv" using 1:($2) \

with points title "Power"

Remote sensor units in a vacation home. Because "home monitoring" technology sold to homeowners is incredibly pathetic I ended up using APC Netbotz products. This image shows a Netbotz video camera and remote environmental sensor mounted on an unfinished ceiling.

Inexpensive dongles allow USB cables to stretch 150+ feet via the use of intermediate cat.5 cables. These units connect remote netbotz cameras and an environmental sensor to the main Netbotz chassis in the basement. Using "datacenter" products to monitor video and environmental data inside a home is superior to using the crap typically offered to homeowners.

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