Power Monitoring with Linux

Quick Outline

ECM Graph

Measuring Power Use

Power Factor

Measuring devices

Clamp Meters

Clamp Meters with PF

Watts Up / Kill a Watt

Zigbee / Xbee

Zigbee / Xbee

Zigbee / Xbee

Tweet a Watt

Xbee receiving on PC

Xbee receiving on router/arduino

Alternate Xbee Receiver

Direct Panel Monitoring

XPL

Rfxmeter Monitoring

Ted 1001/5000-G

Brultech ECM1240

Brultech ECM1240 options

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ECM1240 Log Gathering

ECM1240 Logs and ecmread.py

ecmread.py and parseecmpower

Parseecmpower daily report

Graphing with Cacti

Graphing with Cacti

Phase volts mismatch

Understanding the monitored loads

Composite cacti graphs

Cacti Primer

Cacti RRAs

Cacti Primer, RRA definitions

Cacti: Planning RRDs

Cacti: Source Setup 1

Cacti: Source Setup 2

Other Cacti Tips

Cacti: More than 1 update per minute

Power Monitoring Tips

Recreating an RRD after the fact

References

Questions?