Matt reports back from the EcoHome Lab field trip. We first met Mike Wilson in 2016 at an EcoHome Lab meetup session 'From Monitoring to Control' exploring the recent integration of the building blocks of home automation (MQTT, NodeRED and OpenHAB) into the EmonPi, the central base-station for the OpenEnergyMonitor system (view session presentation). In … Read more
Think and talk. Sometimes this is what we, smart beings, need to do in order to improve. I started working for Carbon Coop in December 2015 and since then I got very involved in EcoHomeLab. A space for energy enthusiasts that, during the time I have taken part on it, has gone through different stages. … Read more
On the 12th of January was last EcoHomeLab session and we had the pleasure to admire 😉 Trystan's new electric bike. A very cool one that he built himself from a DIY kit. We were 10 people this time, 3 of whom were new or almost new to EcoHomeLab: an Arduino user who wanted to … Read more
This January, Carbon Co-op have begun to install smart meter extension (SMX) devices as part of Nobel Grid beginning with Halton Mill, a business centre which forms part of the Lancaster Cohousing development. Lancaster Co-housing is a co-operative co-housing development in Lancaster in the North West of England consisting of 60 new households built to … Read more
And we are now in 2017, happy new year? Let’s hope so… Last EcoHomeLab of 2016 happened on the 12th of December at Madlab as usual. We were quite a lot of people, 13 of us munching mince pies. I was worried that it was going to be a session without content as the original … Read more
Carbon Co-op is launching a new project with Dalarna University (Sweden) and Open Energy Monitor to use low cost energy monitors, smart meters, and cutting edge machine learning algorithms to forecast electricity demand and micro-generation in a community smart grid. The project will create a virtual community smart grid by using data collected from energy … Read more