Home energy monitoring and control system

摘要

A home energy monitoring and control system for monitoring the electrical energy usage of a plurality of appliance loads. The system includes an energy monitor unit for each appliance load which plugs into a standard AC wall outlet and monitors power consumption and also has a power line transmitter/receiver for communicating with a master control station. The master control station receives energy usage data from each of the monitor units and stores the data for display in various user-selectable formats.