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
- USA (Building Submetering Pilot)
- 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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