For the last eight years I've been reading my gas meter every day which entails a trip outside come sun, rain or snow. All this was about trying to save gas and I ended up installing a wireless-based Honeywell Evohome system when it was first introduced.
However, I made a nice discovery last week with some technology based on Z-wave wireless. This is a system made by the Danish company NorthQ (https://store.northq.com/collections/kits). This consists of a magnetic sensor that sticks to the gas meter, a small transmitter unit and a receiver/hub that connects to the home network. This sends gas meter readings to NorthQ's system where I can see a real-time graph of gas usage. It also allows you to export to Excel.
Sometimes, just sometimes, technology can be magic and works first time!
You can see the results from today here: http://www.gare.co.uk/images/q5.jpg
The first peak is hot water, and the second heating the house in the morning.
Chris
However, I made a nice discovery last week with some technology based on Z-wave wireless. This is a system made by the Danish company NorthQ (https://store.northq.com/collections/kits). This consists of a magnetic sensor that sticks to the gas meter, a small transmitter unit and a receiver/hub that connects to the home network. This sends gas meter readings to NorthQ's system where I can see a real-time graph of gas usage. It also allows you to export to Excel.
Sometimes, just sometimes, technology can be magic and works first time!
You can see the results from today here: http://www.gare.co.uk/images/q5.jpg
The first peak is hot water, and the second heating the house in the morning.
Chris