Monitoring Energy usage with the LED Pulse Sensor from Crucible Technologies

With winter coming, and all the energy scares in the news, I was keen to start monitoring the power we were using. I had always intended designing my own system with the LED Pulse Sensor and the Raspberry Pi, but had never got round to it. So I thought I'd quickly rig up soemthing using the Meter Logger from Crucible Technologies. Took me around half an hour to set it all up.

Using the Raspberry Pi as an energy monitor

If one could easily monitor energy pulses with the Raspberry Pi, then it could be used as an energy monitor. By running a web browser on the Pi, this data could be looked at from anywhere in the world. This post shows how the Raspberry Pi can be used to collect energy usage data from a domestic electricity meter.

UPDATED to show LED PULSE SENSOR from Crucible Technologies