RT-1220 Real Time Monitoring Software  .......Discover Where Your "$$$" are going !

 

 

• Listing of Real Time Energy as it happens ! ..more

• Special Feature..... Allows Children to Take Part in Reducing Energy Use ! ..more

• Project your Daily, Weekly and Monthly cost of electricity ! ..more

• View and Understand your Demand to help reduce your Electric Bill ! ...more

• Special Technique lets you identify the power requirements of various Appliances and Loads !  ...more

• Budgeting Feature lets you specify your target Energy Reduction then displays, tracks and notifies your status.  ...more

• Energy Demand Alarm notifies you when approaching a peak demand state and when a peak has occurred.  ...more

The RT-1220 provides the user with the ability to interface any of the following Energy Monitors to a Windows based computer:

• ECM-1220

• ECM-1220.H

• EML-2020

As a load or electrical panel is being monitored with any of the above models of Energy Consumption Monitors, real time energy information is accessible via the USB port or “ZigBee / IEEE 802.15.4 compliant” wireless* link. This data, consisting of thousands of samples per second, is sent to the computer at a resolution of once per second.

 

Provides energy consumption information useful for the homeowner.

Features making it easy for children to understand "how much power" is being used.

The ability for our youths to be able to easily visualize the household electrical usage is very important in this "energy conscientious" generation.

This is why the software was designed with a 'Screen Saver" like window displaying the real time household energy use in terms of "equivalent number of 60W light bulbs powered". This is perhaps the simplest and very visual method of displaying "how much power is being used".

As the household energy increases by 60 watts, another light bulb lights up on the screen and vice versa as the power use diminishes.

 A quick glance at the screen before leaving home will give you an immediate indication of whether or not unnecessary appliances or lights are left ON.

• Make it a family contest to keep the number of ON lights to a minimum!

Displays Standard Energy Data such as:

• Watt (Kilowatt)   for CH1 (Phase A), CH2 (Phase B) and sum of CH1+CH2 (Phase A + B)

• Kilowatt-Hour   (KWh)

• Voltage (Volt)

• Cost of Energy Used ($)

• Projected Daily, Weekly and Monthly Cost of Energy ($)

• Present rate of usage in "Dollar per Hour" ($/Hr)

 

 

Creates a listing, updated every second, of the current amount of power used.

This information is displayed separately for each panel phase (half).

Also displayed is the incremental kilowatt-hour value and time stamp.

A portion or the entire listing may be copied and pasted into other applications, or the entire "tab delimited" file may be saved for easy import into spreadsheets or other programs.

Displays the "peak demand" value. The highest demand rate, along with the time of occurrence is displayed, along with the present Demand.

The software can be setup to alarm in the event that the demand is approaching a preset value.

This feature can do a lot for those customers billed according to demand.

An option which will be available in the future will be to wirelessly disable non-critical loads in the event of high demands.

For instance, if lunch is being cooked and the demand is approaching a critical condition, loads such as: pool pump, electrical water heater, bedroom baseboard heater, etc may be temporarily disable using software wireless commands and wireless switch modules.

EASY residential load energy audits!

• How much power does your central air unit use?
• What about the Hot Tub, washer, dryer?
• The bathroom light and fan?

For many loads, reading the product tag information will not reveal the actual power it uses.

The RTL software provides you with a means of determining this value. Here is how it is done:

You may be familiar with the "tare" weight when using a scale.

For example, if a 100 kg container is placed on a scale and items are inserted into the container increasing the total weight to 150 kg,, the tare weight is said to be 100kg. When the tare value is subtracted from the total weight the item weight of 50 kg is obtained.

The same principle is used for identifying the power usage of various appliances, loads or branch circuits. Before cycling a load to be analyzed, the software determines the "tare" power of the service panel being monitored.

Using the software's "Locate Screen" the Start button is clicked to begin searching for an increase in power. The load to be identified is cycled ON by the consumer and detected by the software.

After several seconds, the consumer turns OFF the load.  The software detects the OFF cycle then graphs the load power and displays the average load power.

Because the ECM-1220 monitor reads each half of the panel power separately, the software identifies which phase (half) the load is connected to. This is helpful in identifying loads that are cycled when you are away or sleeping.  

For example:

Using the technique described above, you have determined that the dehumidifier is connected to Phase B and consumes approximately 347 watts.

Reviewing the daily consumption graph for the entire service panel, you discover occasional increases/decreases on Phase B of approximately 346 watts. Based on this finding you can determine how often the dehumidifier is cycled.

The reason I use this example is because this is a real life example I experienced. I noticed that my dehumidifier spent a lot of ON time. I reduced the dehumidifier setting slightly, and noticed a substantial reduction in ON time with no noticeable change in humidity or comfort.

 

 

The RTL software now has the ability to read and configure some of the ECM-1220 settings instead of manually keying them.

This feature will not work on older firmware versions, however firmware updates are available free of charge. (email support@brultech.com)