MacDisein
2012-12-30 17:46:51
- #1
Hello,
I am new here and would like to ask my first question.
For next year I am planning to build a single-family house, and at the moment I am trying to get an overview of the options offered by the individual trades.
Since I am a software developer by profession, I am professionally interested in technology and have looked into a bus system – after some research, including here in the forum, I have come to the conclusion that it probably does not pay off and one would simply use such a system too little.
Now, during the Christmas season, for example, what annoys me in my current apartment is that I cannot switch the Christmas lights in the house on/off with a central switch – but for the four or five weeks a year when that is relevant, the effort is too great for me.
It would certainly have its charm to be able to switch any lamp or socket with any switch, but usually you set it once as desired and then don’t change it anymore.
Now I have dealt a little with smart metering, that is the electronic monitoring of energy meters – this topic interests me a lot, I would like to provide monitoring of electricity, gas, and water meters for my new build.
There are apparently different options for this – I would prefer a connection via Ethernet – basically the important thing would be just reading the values via software on the PC.
Has anyone done something like this already, especially for gas and water meters?
I’m not sure what my energy suppliers would say if I don’t use their meters, or are there no problems?
Or do I always need a meter from the energy supplier and then simply connect my smart meter behind it?
I have now read something about KNX FacilityWeb, which apparently are devices that have a KNX bus but each have their own web server – basically that would be a possible way. Actually, I want a pretty integrated solution, so no makeshift solution where some scanning module is placed on the existing meter, or is that the only possibility because the energy suppliers otherwise do not cooperate?
Which other systems are also recommended?
I also have no idea what a normal electricity, gas, or water meter costs compared to an intelligent meter – maybe such an effort is not worth it again in this case.
MacDisein
I am new here and would like to ask my first question.
For next year I am planning to build a single-family house, and at the moment I am trying to get an overview of the options offered by the individual trades.
Since I am a software developer by profession, I am professionally interested in technology and have looked into a bus system – after some research, including here in the forum, I have come to the conclusion that it probably does not pay off and one would simply use such a system too little.
Now, during the Christmas season, for example, what annoys me in my current apartment is that I cannot switch the Christmas lights in the house on/off with a central switch – but for the four or five weeks a year when that is relevant, the effort is too great for me.
It would certainly have its charm to be able to switch any lamp or socket with any switch, but usually you set it once as desired and then don’t change it anymore.
Now I have dealt a little with smart metering, that is the electronic monitoring of energy meters – this topic interests me a lot, I would like to provide monitoring of electricity, gas, and water meters for my new build.
There are apparently different options for this – I would prefer a connection via Ethernet – basically the important thing would be just reading the values via software on the PC.
Has anyone done something like this already, especially for gas and water meters?
I’m not sure what my energy suppliers would say if I don’t use their meters, or are there no problems?
Or do I always need a meter from the energy supplier and then simply connect my smart meter behind it?
I have now read something about KNX FacilityWeb, which apparently are devices that have a KNX bus but each have their own web server – basically that would be a possible way. Actually, I want a pretty integrated solution, so no makeshift solution where some scanning module is placed on the existing meter, or is that the only possibility because the energy suppliers otherwise do not cooperate?
Which other systems are also recommended?
I also have no idea what a normal electricity, gas, or water meter costs compared to an intelligent meter – maybe such an effort is not worth it again in this case.
MacDisein