Following the previous success where we managed to see the transmissions from the Black & Decker Power Monitor, Andrew Kilpatrick and I went about trying to capture the packets. Without an access to an oscilloscope with packet capture capabilities we built our own with an Arduino. Essentially, the code waits for ...

Black & Decker makes an interesting product called the Power Monitor. The monitor straps on to your hydro meter and reports the revolutions of a spinning disc or blinks of an IR LED depending which model of meter you have. It then broadcasts that reading to a handheld unit inside ...

Recently I had a discussion with someone from the South Riverdale Community Health Centre on Air Quality monitoring in Ontario (AQI). I learned a number of things, there are only 40 Air Quality Monitors in Ontario and they test for six key indexes. Toronto runs a slightly different test, the ...

Its been a busy couple of months! Through work we've launched the Count Me In Ontario website and an upcoming energy visualization tool in cooperation with the IESO. I've also been busy hacking the Black & Decker Power Monitor with some interesting results. Coincidentally enough, its Clean Air Day and ...