I was checking on the website for The Energy Detective the other day looking for API info, and found that their page of 3rd-party applications had been updated, and included an application called it’s electric. it’s electric is a Java web application that queries the TED gateway frequently for the 1 second resolution power data, and stores it in a Berkeley DB. That alone is useful, as the TED has a segmented data storage system, keeping the 1 second resolution data only for an hour (and so on for coarser grained data).
It also provides a graphing system based on Google’s Annotated Timeline visualization, with some enhancements like automatically changing the resolution of the displayed data depending on the time interval displayed. Here’s a screenshot:
There’s a Google group for support and discussion, and the author Robert Tupelo-Schneck seems quite responsive. A jar file is provided on the group page (which I won’t link to since you should download the latest version), which includes the Java bytecode as well as the source, which is released under the AGPL license. The application is not large, consisting of 5 class files.
Compared to WattDepot, it’s electric seems considerably snappier. Presumably this is due in part to using Berkeley DB for persistence instead of an SQL database. The code also stores data in byte form, rather than higher-level Java objects and XML. Also, it’s electric occupies a clear functionality niche: it provides long-term storage of the finest-grained TED data (which is otherwise lost every hour), and provides graphing of that data from locations outside the home network.
I experienced some problems when scrolling around the data on the live it’s electric website, sometimes the graph would not update, or I was unable to scroll to where I wanted to apparently because new data was being loaded in for the current location.
Overall it’s electric looks like it could be useful for TED owners that want to hold on to that fine grained data, and want more options for displaying that data outside the home.
Tags: TED5000
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March 15, 2010 at 6:01 am |
Just stumbled onto this by an unrelated Google search! Thanks for the kind words. WattDepot looks like a remarkable tool; had I known about it before I started “it’s electric” I might have wanted to jump on your ship instead! You certainly seem to be casting your net a little bit wider.
If you see any interesting possibilities for collaboration do get in touch!
Best,
Robert