New Propeller project, needs a name
Jay Kickliter
Posts: 446
I was going to wait a couple weeks to officially release this project, but my design partner and I have a student booth at a conference next weekend, and need a better name.
Some details:
- Propeller-based open source energy/power meter
- scaleable from individual outlets to all the energy coming into a house
- uses current transformers instead of shunts for measureing current
- computes true RMS voltage and current
- XBee, with plans of mesh-networking for wireless meter reading
Right now we're calling it Open Energy Meter, but that's pretty generic, and nowhere as cool as Kill-a-Watt. Anybody have a suggestion for name, that doesn't include 'Prop' (want to keep the name separate from the architecture)?
Attached are a couple photos of the working prototype and an OS X monitoring application. All communication is over the XBee in API mode, even the waveforms.
The design is nowhere near final, I'll release the hardware files when it is. You can see the code here if you want.
Thanks.
Some details:
- Propeller-based open source energy/power meter
- scaleable from individual outlets to all the energy coming into a house
- uses current transformers instead of shunts for measureing current
- computes true RMS voltage and current
- XBee, with plans of mesh-networking for wireless meter reading
Right now we're calling it Open Energy Meter, but that's pretty generic, and nowhere as cool as Kill-a-Watt. Anybody have a suggestion for name, that doesn't include 'Prop' (want to keep the name separate from the architecture)?
Attached are a couple photos of the working prototype and an OS X monitoring application. All communication is over the XBee in API mode, even the waveforms.
The design is nowhere near final, I'll release the hardware files when it is. You can see the code here if you want.
Thanks.
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Comments
OK, this is why I program, not work in marketing [8^)
Jonathan
Tru-current energy meter
OSECM - open source electric current monitor
PECMS - practical electric current monitoring system
Open CM (current meter / monitor)
Accumeter - Precision, scalable electric current meter
E-green CM
Spanky, the easy to use power meter. LOL!!!
(sorry, kind of Smile ideas right now. I'll post up again later)
...actually, using a name has it's merits! You can have a character to use in marketing, and lord knows those are actually effective right now, particularly in Asian markets.
Introducing SAM, your open source, scalable power meter. (who cares that the A is just Amps?) Our compact, low cost, high precision, environmentally green, and robust design can deliver the power measurements you need, whether it's just a single source, or a entire house!!
There you go! I'm done now for a while.
RMS is actually pretty great, but hard to personify. What's your target market? Consumers? Pros? Academics?
(maybe not done, kind of stuck on it now)
Or just Jules (bonus name suggestion for version 2: Verne hehe)
keeping with the person's name theme:
Flint (as in, who would be a Sparky's friend? Flint would, that's who
or going with acronyms:
SAVEM (Scalable Amp & Volt Electrical Meter)
That's about all I can think of... for now.
It is big problems on this page http://code.google.com/p/open-energy-meter/source/browse/trunk/?r=30 with Yours source files
Start Show/Download as example this file -ADC_INPUT_DRIVER- Most of them have same behavior
I see what Sapieha is talking about. Google doesn't display Unicode files correctly.
'NIce graphics window, BTW. What was it written in?
-Phil
This was my 1000th post!
I'll see if I can fix those files.
Written in Objective-c, with Cocoa frameworks (PKA NextStep), and Core Plot for the plotting. A native mac application.
TattleWatt
-Phil
Watter View
See Watter
Watt's Up
Well, watts o' wuck!
-Phil
Watt's Up
Be watt back ....
Following on from Phil's lead:
Wattson
Say Watt?
Lance-A-Watt (That's Sir Lance-A-Watt to you!