{"id":9754,"date":"2015-08-24T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=9754"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:06:38","slug":"monitoring-energy-consumption-with-watt-a-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/monitoring-energy-consumption-with-watt-a-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Energy Consumption with Watt-a-Save"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most important facets of reducing energy consumption is monitoring it. What if there was a way to do that with a favorite Digilent product? This project<\/a>\u00a0by Instructables user AndreiAnghel<\/a> strives to do just that with the chipKIT WF32<\/a> —\u00a0to monitor the energy consumption in a household so it can act as an intelligent switch while\u00a0feedback to the user on a website.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LcFIrguE9oM&feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n

In order to get things set up, you’ll need a chipKIT WF32 to control the system and send data to the cloud. You will also need the following: a PmodPMON1<\/a>, a PmodOLED<\/a> (to display data to the user), the PmodTMP3<\/a>, PmodALS<\/a>, and the PmodMAXSONAR<\/a>. Since the project is still in progress, some of the roles haven’t been defined for the parts yet.<\/p>\n

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The PmodMAXSONAR connected to the WF32.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So how does it all fit together? Start by getting all your Pmods (peripheral modules) together, and then connect them to the chipKIT WF32. Once everything is connected, it’s time to get started with the code for the Pmods. Then, add the the code for WiFi for the WF32.<\/p>\n

This project is still in progress, but we’re excited about everything that’s been accomplished so far!<\/p>\n

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Want an easy way to monitor energy consumption for your house? There’s an Instructable for that that uses the chipKIT WF32 and a few Pmods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4327,1561],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-9754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expansion-modules","category-projects","category-applications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/watt-a-save-all.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9754"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}