PowerBlade: A Low-Profile, True-Power, Plug-Through Energy Meter

@article{DeBruin2015PowerBladeAL,
  title={PowerBlade: A Low-Profile, True-Power, Plug-Through Energy Meter},
  author={Samuel DeBruin and Branden Ghena and Ye-Sheng Kuo and Prabal Dutta},
  journal={Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems},
  year={2015}
}
  • S. DeBruin, Branden Ghena, P. Dutta
  • Published 1 November 2015
  • Engineering
  • Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
We present PowerBlade, the smallest, lowest cost, and lowest power AC plug-load meter that measures real, reactive and apparent power, and reports this data, along with cumulative energy consumption, over an industry-standard Bluetooth Low Energy radio. [] Key Result This new design point enables affordable large-scale studies of plug-load energy usage--an area of growing national importance.
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