Energy Monitoring System
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:48PM 
Since the Smart Farm is going to be using a lot of energy drawing from several different sources to achieve its self sustainability, a monitoring system would be of great value to monitor the usage of the different types of energy on the farm.
The different types of sustainable energy that we are suspecting will be used on the farm will be electrical (wind and solar, possibly energy from the grid), and biomass. The output yield of the farm will also be monitored, such as food and crops. All of these sources of energy will be monitored by different methods.
For the electrical system, a digital system can be used to monitor the energy usage over time on the farm. This is the easiest to implement, because there are already multiple systems in existence that do this.
For fossil fuels, monitoring the fuel usage will either have to be hand recorded if obtained off site, or it could also have a digital monitoring sensor system if the fuel is obtained from a storage tank on site.
For biomass, it is unsure how to measure the energy, since we don’t know what method we will be using for extracting energy from the biomass.
For food and crops, there will probably need to be a lot of user input to record the data. Weight will likely be the measurement of interest.
All these different energy sources will be monitored and logged in a trend log so that someone can view the inputs (energy usage) and the outputs (food and crops) of the farm, so that improvements can be made over time. Ideally, there would be a feature to plug in a portable notebook to download trend log data to a database, which can then be viewed in database software. Just as a financial budget increases awareness and smart money spending, having an energy monitoring system will allow the user to observe the amount of energy used, and how.
Ryan Town and Derek Welsh
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