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The Energy Monitoring Box (and network hub) is shown nearly complete in the above photo.
Below are some videos showing how the front panel was prepared.

Part I

Part II

Part III

SenSyr has been exploring the potential of Pachube (www.pachube.com), which is all about sharing sensor data across the web.

We set up a working example feed (www.pachube.com/feeds/2289). This feed is a Smart Building System compatible temperature and humidity sensor. The sensor device uses a PIC processor to regularly collect and format data from a SHT75 sensor. The Ethernet connectivity is implemented with a Lantronix XPORT module. A LabVIEW program, in turn, collects data from the temperature/humidity device once per minute using the Collabworx/SenSyr Smart Building (SmB) Protocol, and transmits those values to Pachube. The LabVIEW program is running as a stand-alone executable.

Here’s a Google Visualization of this Pachube Feed data History: www.sensyr.com/pachube1.html

Another feed was set up to extract and track local weather data from the NWS. See http://www.pachube.com/feeds/2779.

Collabworx (www.collabworx.com) and SenSyr (www.sensyr.com) accepted the TAD (Technology Application and Demonstration) award by U.S. Congressman Dan Maffei on July 20, 2009 at The Tech Garden. The TAD award is funded by the EPA through the Syracuse Center of Excellence (www.syracusecoe.org). The project is “Open Web Services-based Indoor Climate Control System, Phase III” and principally concerns the actual implementation of the technology in laboratories and buildings. This included a number of extensions to the technology; however, these are rather modest, as the existing system is already quite advanced. The project now focuses on deployment and on application development, and addresses energy conservation and air quality in buildings while maintaining individualized comfort levels that improve employee efficiency and productivity. See previous blog entries.

Berezin Technologies rolled out their new SuperRemote Device today (05/19/2009): berezintechnologies.com

SenSyr designed the PCB and firmware for this device.