Screenshots

You can see some of the features of the Calc-Electric software by looking at the screenshots on this page. (Click on images to enlarge)

Camera setup screen

With this screen you can adjust the camera resolution and the sensitivity of the camera so that it reliably detects the rotation of the disk in the electricity meter.

Data Logging Screen

This screen shows your energy consumption, power, and cost per hour since you started recording the data. The data that this screen shows (always being updated) is stored in your PC's memory for later study. This data may be viewed as it's being collected in the graph screen (see bottom).

Trip Screen

This screen is like mileage trip counter in a car. You can start and stop and reset this screen as much as you like whilst still logging data via the Data Logging Screen. Data in this screen is not stored to memory.

This screen is useful for you to see the effect of turning individual appliances on and off.

Graph Screen

This screen lets you view the recorded data (such as total energy used, cost etc) which has been gathered when the Data Logging Screen is active. You can use this screen whilst the data is being collected, after you've finished collecting it, and at any time later on if you have saved the logged data to disk. You can read individual values from this graph by moving the mouse pointer over the area of interest. You can zoom in and out of this screen to view timespans. The Calc-Electric program is capable or running continuously over long periods of time (months if necessary) and storing all of the collected data for later analysis.