{"id":1630,"date":"2009-03-31T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2022-12-28T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:49:54","slug":"tweet-a-watt-uses-wl-520gu-for-data-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/tweet-a-watt-uses-wl-520gu-for-data-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet-a-watt uses WL-520gU for Data Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ladyada<\/a> of Adafruit Industries<\/a> created the Tweet-a-Watt<\/a> to monitor energy usage in her apartment.<\/p>\n

Each Tweet-a-Watt device contains some power monitoring electronics and an Xbee<\/a> module.\u00a0 The Xbee modules relay energy usage data for each Tweet-a-Watt back to a single receiver, which collects the data.<\/p>\n

In staying with the overall green theme of the project, Ladyada used an Asus Wl-520gU<\/a> wireless router to control the receiver and collect data.\u00a0 This is the same router I used for my Wifi Radio<\/a> project!\u00a0 The WL-520gU consumes ~5W and has enough horsepower to run the python data acquisition scripts while still acting as a cablemodem gateway.<\/p>\n

More info:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ladyada.net\/make\/tweetawatt\/expand.html
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Ladyada of Adafruit Industries created the Tweet-a-Watt to monitor energy usage in her apartment. Each Tweet-a-Watt device contains some power monitoring electronics and an Xbee module.\u00a0 The Xbee modules relay energy usage data for each Tweet-a-Watt back to a single receiver, which collects the data. In staying with the overall green theme of the project, … Continue reading Tweet-a-watt uses WL-520gU for Data Acquisition<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,191,162,123],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-interesting","tag-twitter","tag-wifiradio","tag-wl-520gu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-qi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1655,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/video-hacking-the-asus-router-for-the-tweet-a-watt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1630,"position":0},"title":"Video: Hacking the ASUS router for the Tweet-a-Watt","author":"Jeff","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned last week, Adafruit Industries is hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router to talk to the Tweet-a-Watt. 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