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F.A.Q.
KiP stands for Knowledge is Power. We believe that knowledge about personal power consumption empowers consumers to take control of their energy consumption. We also want to empower those studying smart grid, electrical engineering, and software engineering courses to have a reference AMI project to gain knowledge from.
The KiP Project is an AMI package designed to be cheap, accessible, and understandable. It currently consists of three sub-projects: the KiP board, the KiP Board Firmware, and the KiP Software.
KiP Board is a in house designed sensor board which is capable of monitoring powerline current and voltage. This board is open source and schematics are available in the download section. For more information about the Kip Board take a look at the board wiki page.
The firmware will allow each component of the board to communicate with each other. The microcontroller unit (MCU) will read information from the current transformer as well as send instructions and data to the ENC28J60 Ethernet chip via the Serial Peripheral Interface Bus communication scheme.
The KiP Software controls and receives data from the KiP Board. It receives UDP packets from the board that contain raw power measurements. It analyzes the measurements and calculates voltage, Watts, and Amperage. The data is displayed in real time and also stored in memory to be analyzed later using the Packet Explorer.
The Packet Explorer is a component of the KiP Software that displays fine grained information about each individual packet (such as the waveforms of raw power measurements).