Watt Tap Appliance Energy Meter
Precise, cost-effective energy metering for your appliances.
Watt Tap is an energy meter that can easily be added to any appliance. It connects to a smartphone app and provides energy consumption history as well as recorded consumption for specific periods. Watt Tap lets you see precisely where energy is consumed by an appliance. It can be transfered easily to any appliance in your home of workplace and help make meaningful, impactful choices..
Secure, Wireless Meter
Watt Tap is an open hardware design that is based IoTize TapNLink wireless modules. It adds on to any appliance for energy metering by connecting directly to the power cord. It is designed for precision, low-cost, low-power consumption and security.
Smartphone Connectivity
Watt Tap with Near Field Communication connects to your smartphone with a simple tapping gesture that launches the Watt Tap app. Data is stored only on the Watt Tap and on your phone for confidentiality.
The IoTize supplied Watt Tap mobile app provides visibility of hourly, weekly or monthly consumption. It can even measure consumption during specific events (ex. while running a wash cycle). Check it out in the video below.
Try This App, or Create Your Own
This video shows the features of the Watt Tap app that IoTize provides to help users see and understand the energy consumption of the appliance that their Watt Tap device is connected to.
Instantaneous Power Measure
A range of instantaneous measures of power consumption help the user see how an appliance is performing at a glance. Features include graphing of power consumption (data compiled and stored temporarily by the app), low and high energy use, and consumption warnings.
History of Power Consumption
The Watt Tap hardware is also equipped and configured to record the power consumption history (past minutes, hours, days and months).
This feature illustrates the power of this design and its embedded Java Virtual Machine for edge data processing, storage and even transfer to any cloud platform that you choose.
Record Event Power Consumption
To understand the consumption and cost of specific activities, the app includes setting for the cost per kilowatt hour, as well as controls to start and stop consumption recording during a specific event.
For example, connected to a clothes washer, a user can measure the cost of a wash cycle:
- Using different wash modes
- At different hours where the cost per KWh is different.
Create Your Own App
Want to try your hand at creating your own app and data analysis features?
Watt Tap is created using IoTize's App Creator tools. Any user can create their own dashboard or even their own mobile app without writing a single line of code. With App Creator users simply import the Watt Tap's embedded configuration. Then using a drag-and-drop interface can create an interface that corresponds to their use or their specific appliance.
Create Your Own Watt Tap Interface in IoT App Creator
Appliance owners can use the IoTize Watt Tap app or create their own metering apps for their mobile phone. It takes just a few minutes with IoTize's free IoT App Creator to create dashboards that run on iOS and Android mobiles.
Users simply select the data they want to represent and the graphical representation for that data. For more advanced features such as managing different views and controls for users that have logged in to the appliance, a fewl lines of java code allow users to create advange displays, controls and views of consumption data.
See how App Creator works here...