This is done by the solar power provider or electric utility with the rainforest gateway which is installed in the home controls the local nanogrid of appliances and connects to the rainforest cloud for aggregated energy management of millions of devices.
Rainforest energy monitoring unit.
It connects wirelessly to your utility smart meter without the need to wire anything up to your panel.
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The rainforest emu 2 energy monitor is a fairly dumb device that will connect to your zigbee smart meter and show you instantaneous energy usage every 8 seconds.
There s also a review on the older eagle rainforest eagle energy monitor and zigbee smart energy gateway detailing how the local security is broken.
Emu 2 energy monitor for smart meters the emu 2 has a graphical backlit screen and stoplight leds to see your energy at a glance.
Automatic pricing tiered or time of use.
I verified the ssh version on the eagle 200 is openssh 6 6 which is 4 years old instead of 12 but i haven t yet.
Pge restricts solar customers from seeing their pricing expenses for day to day activities this also applies to real time energy monitoring with a unit such as this.
However there are a few other features that are advertised.
Contacting customer support from rainforest was useless the manufacturer does not want to and is not planning on addressing user input of pricing.
A demonstration of the rainforest automation emu 2 smart meter display.
Information displayed includes the total electricity use for the billing period and the real time electricity use.
Smart home meets the smart grid.
Rainforest emu 2 energy monitoring unit the emu 2 continuously monitors your electricity usage and displays this information in both dollar cost and kilowatts on an lcd screen.
This shows real time energy usage of your house by linking wirelessly to your home s smart meter.
The emu 2 is zigbee smart energy 1 1 certified and uses elliptic curve cryptography technology to keep your data secure.
The ssh version is ancient and the password is simple enough to bruteforce.
Use any web enabled device along with our cloud service to instantly track what is happening to your energy.
Once you have registered the emu 2 with your utility simply plug in the device and it will do the rest.
Eagle 200 energy monitoring gateway for smart meters the eagle 200 energy gateway connects to your smart meter to allow you to see your real time whole home energy usage wherever you are.
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The emu 2 will display your energy in real time 24 hours a day.
This is the easiest way to get your energy data direct from the smart meter.
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