This is my first power/voltage sensor I've build. It is based on an commercially available powermeter from B+G E-Tech. You can find them on eBay or their website. It provides a 90ms pulse for each Wh flown through it.
The line voltage is measured using a simple transformer and a circuit based on the schematic from OpenEnergyMonitor. The software to measure the line voltage is also from OpenEnergyMonitor embedded into my sensor framework.
As this was my first power sensor, I mounted the hardware into a sturdy BOPLA ULTRAMAS case with a Schuko socket on top for the load and a fixed power line cable for the source.
The microcontroller is a PretzlBoard (an Arduino clone with onboad ESP8266 WiFi). Powered is all by a completely oversized 5V/3A siwtching power supply from MEANWELL - but it costs only €8,- ;-)
The data is transmitted also directly to the data collecting web-site.The power and voltage values are sent every minute to the web-site. The administrative sensor are transmitted once every 10 minutes to the web.
Senors
The following sensors are provided by this sensor node:
| Uploads OK | Number of successfull data uploads |
| Network restarts | Number of WLAN reconnects etc. |
| Uploads failed | Number of upload errors since the last WLAN reconnect |
| VCC | The internal power supply voltage |
| Netzspannung | The main power peak-to-peak AC voltage |
| Gehäuse | The inner case temperature |
| Energieverbrauch | The energie consumption of our house during the last measurement intervall, means 1 minute |
Visualization is identical to this powermeter.