Any smart circuit breakers/panels for individual circuit monitoring?

[justinm001]

Is there anything that monitors every breaker in my circuit panels (have a couple) so we can monitor usage on a per breaker level? We use a lot of electricity and its pretty hard to determine how much things are costing us and where we can improve. If I can narrow down to area of house or just monitor large appliances that have their own breaker (HVAC, Range, etc) it'll really help determine what we can improve vs what is normal. I've tried sense but it only monitors one breaker and I really don't trust what it discovers.

[sparkman]

I'd recommend the GEM from Brultech: http://www.brultech.com/greeneye/. There are one or two plugins that work with it.

Leviton just announced a smart panel: https://www.leviton.com/en/products/...l/load-centers. It's not out yet and integration with HS is unknown at this time.

[justinm001]

I'd recommend the GEM from Brultech: http://www.brultech.com/greeneye/. There are one or two plugins that work with it.

Leviton just announced a smart panel: https://www.leviton.com/en/products/...l/load-centers. It's not out yet and integration with HS is unknown at this time.

Thanks, I was trying not to fill the panel with those CTs on every wire. The levitron looks promising but it seems it uses wifi for every breaker, I really hope its some internal wifi and not going to add 80 IPs on my home network to manage, also seems a bit overkilll when they could of just put a sensor wire on it that connected to a hub box. Guess i'll have to put this on hold for a bit until its released and hope pricing isn't outrageous. Would love HS3 integration but not really necessary

[simplextech]

Thanks, I was trying not to fill the panel with those CTs on every wire. The levitron looks promising but it seems it uses wifi for every breaker, I really hope its some internal wifi and not going to add 80 IPs on my home network to manage, also seems a bit overkilll when they could of just put a sensor wire on it that connected to a hub box. Guess i'll have to put this on hold for a bit until its released and hope pricing isn't outrageous. Would love HS3 integration but not really necessary

I would second the GEM...

In my recent discussions with Leviton they are definitely on the Wifi bandwagon and all about the cloud currently. So I wouldn't be surprised if this new "smart panel" is going to be wifi and push data to their app/servers that will then have to be accessed.

[jmaddox]

Thanks, I was trying not to fill the panel with those CTs on every wire. The levitron looks promising but it seems it uses wifi for every breaker, I really hope its some internal wifi and not going to add 80 IPs on my home network to manage, also seems a bit overkilll when they could of just put a sensor wire on it that connected to a hub box. Guess i'll have to put this on hold for a bit until its released and hope pricing isn't outrageous. Would love HS3 integration but not really necessary

I agree the leviton panel looks very cool. From the brochure It looked like the breakers connect to an interior hub at the bottom of the panel. I suspect only 1 IP gets added to your network. Wouldn't surprise me if that interior hub then connects to a cloud server which would be a huge turn off for me. I actually recently had my panel replaced. A whole day project by a qualified electrician. CT's are most definitely easier to add after market than replacing a whole panel.

[drhtmal]

Would love HS3 integration but not really necessary

They have HomeSee integration https://www.brultech.com/data-host/#opt

Anyone using this that can comment on how well it works?

[randy]

I installed a GEM in 2014. It is great, reliable and accurate. I use UltraJones’ plug-in and it is also very good.

I wrote about it here.

Installing the CTs for all 32 channels was not difficult at all.

[Miamijerry]

Here is some of my GEM data in a Grafana webpage

[Timon]

I installed a GEM in 2014. It is great, reliable and accurate. I use UltraJones’ plug-in and it is also very good.

I wrote about it here.

Installing the CTs for all 32 channels was not difficult at all.

I check out your post on these and they are very nice indeed. Something I might add later although it would take two panels in my house. Glad to see the sensors have 2 meter leads which will help my install due to have my panels are split.