These days, everyone thinks about how much energy they use, at work or at home. This might be out of concern for the environment, to save money, or both! Thankfully there's an ever increasing range of options for monitoring your energy usage, but typically the information is only presented on a tiny screen, and you need to be next to the screen to see what is going on. If you really want to get the message about energy saving out to a wider community, in a larger organisation like a school or a company, then you need it to be shouted out - that's where CODA can help!
Some of the more recent energy monitoring systems have a way to get your energy usage data out of them, either historic data, real time usage, or both. One of the most common options to monitor energy and "free" the data is to use a CurrentCost device, pictured here. This device has a serial port built in that will continuously report energy usage in real time, and periodically report your recent energy usage history. At Camvine we use this device to display our energy usage on CODA screens around the office, so we're all aware of how much energy we're using.
