Success case

Smart Building Metering Made Easy: BeagleBone® Green-based Solution for Real-time Monitoring and Optimization

Project Introduction The BeagleBone® Green-based customization solution collects real-time data for residential and factory water,

Industry
Smart Building, Energy Management
Region
美国·建筑计量试点
Application
Building Water, Electricity, and Gas Metering
Results
Thousands of customers Customer Base Served

Project background and needs

A customized BeagleBone Green serves as a smart gateway in residences and factories, collecting water, electricity, and gas usage and uploading it to the cloud and a local database to support remote monitoring and energy optimization.

Data Collection

  • Residences and factories needed real-time visibility into water, electricity, and gas usage.
  • Administrators needed this data to support energy purchasing and resource allocation.

Metering data needed to be collected centrally and viewed remotely.

Remote Management and Backup

  • The system needed to receive control commands from higher-level systems and report meter status.
  • Local storage needed to retain data during network outages.

Bidirectional communication and data sync after reconnecting were needed.

Solution and architecture

Metering Access

The customized BeagleBone Green adds RS485, an RTC, and a DC input, connecting to multiple smart meters to collect energy consumption, voltage, and other data.

Storage and Control

Data is uploaded to the cloud over Wi-Fi, with local storage as a backup during outages that syncs once reconnected; remote configuration supports CT ratio, maximum demand, and time-of-use rates.

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