Comprehensive Residential Energy Monitoring System

NIST needs a complete residential energy monitoring system to convey real-time comprehensive energy consumption data by particular end-use to occupants. POC developed a new Comprehensive Wireless Residential Energy Monitoring (CORE) system that integrates multiple wireless sensor modes with a unique radio board into an innovative wireless network architecture. Key Phase I developments were a first-of-a-kind noninvasive clamp-on mass flow sensor for water consumption monitoring and a GUI that presents understandable energy usage data to promote energy-efficient behavior. POC met all Phase I objectives through system design, sensor research and simulation, sensor/system development, assembly, and demonstrating a proof-of-concept prototype to NIST. In Phase II, POC plans to enhance CORE technology be developing a pre-production prototype with high commercial value. The Phase II work will be a straightforward implementation of Phase I findings and will incorporate major improvements determined during Phase I.