Welcome

This is a project to develop and build open-source energy monitoring, control and analysis tools.

Our main focus at the moment is developing an end-to-end open-source energy monitoring system that is Arduino IDE compatible:

The openenergymonitor system is made up of four main parts: emonTx  |  emonGLCD  |  emonBase  |  emoncms. These can be assembled and configured to work for a variety of applications from a home energy monitor to solar pv import/export monitoring and beyond.

Get started: Build a system

Modules

The module pages detail modules that may be used to build full systems. Many of the modules here are integrated into the end-to-end energy monitoring system above however there are also other modules that have been developed over time. The documentation here is also useful if you want to develop your own systems from scratch as there is individual documentation on sensors for ac, dc electricity, temperature etc.

1) Inputs modules

Modules for monitoring your house electricity use with a clip on CT sensor or monitoring a large building, renewables, gas, electric with a multiple pulse counter. There are also how to's on using temperature sensors and monitoring wind speeds!

2) Output modules and networking

Displays, Storage, Communication, Visualisation and networking.

Join us

This is an open source collaborative project and we welcome your involvement. Through open source collaborative innovation we can make great technology.

We have started to create a series of pages that outline our short term development plans and also longer term wish list of features that would be great to have. If you could help us with any of these items that would be very helpful. It is also likely that we have not thought of everything and so if you have an idea for a feature, please propose your idea on these pages or just go ahead and do it and then post on the forums about your work.

OpenEnergyMonitor in general development plans

Emoncms specific development plans

You can also:

1. Register on the openenergymonitor website, it is a semi-wiki site, you can create your own profile and add/edit content and comment as usual.

2. Post on the forums: We are trying to use the forums more than the comment threads as it makes it easier to find topics. 

3. Add your blog: if you have your own energy monitoring project blog please let us know and we can add you to the recent blog posts feed.

4. Add your project: Have you found OpenEnergyMonitor useful for your project? University related or other. If you are, why not upload your project report to builds or case studies or send us a link, we would love to hear what you are doing with the technology! It will also help others doing similar work. 

5. Donate: If you have found the information on OpenEnergyMonitor useful please consider donating to the project. We are not-for-profit and to-date the project has been totally self funded; all donations will go towards funding exciting open-source development work.