ECE497 Project Tweet-A-Watt

Team members: Chris Andrews

Executive Summary
This project is based off of two projects and bringing the results to the Beaglebone Black. The first project is Tweet-a-Watt. This takes a signal from a Kill-A-Watt power meter and reports it to a host computer. The second one is RaspiWatt. This modified the first project in order to use a Raspberry Pi instead of a general purpose computer.

This should be fully working but I am having issues getting a working Beaglebone to test it.

What needs to be implemented is the cleaning up of the code to eliminate unnecessary things such as the pi plate code.

Packaging
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Installation Instructions
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 * Follow the hardware instruction up until the end of making the transmitter.
 * Then download the [software https://github.com/misterbonnie/Tweet-a-Watt.git]
 * Set up a Cosm account
 * Modify the Wattcher.py to use your account and the UART as the serial port

User Instructions
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Highlights
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Theory of Operation
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Future Work
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