Coenraad PretoriusOptimising my clevrHome energy consumptionHarnessing solar power and optimising energy consumption are crucial steps towards sustainable living and reducing electricity costs. This…Jun 24Jun 24
Coenraad PretoriusBuilding a home energy monitoring dashboard for your clevrHomeMonitoring energy consumption is a critical step to help you manage your energy usage effectively. It makes the invisible and sometimes…Jun 11Jun 11
Coenraad PretoriusBuild an OPC UA bridge in PythonMany times, during development one comes across a gap in a project that is easy to fix in essence but there are other factors at play. One…Jun 11, 2023Jun 11, 2023
Coenraad PretoriusFour steps to systematically optimise your energy consumptionMany parts of the world are facing energy challenges, yet I still see so much energy being wasted. In a country where the national grid is…Jan 18, 2023Jan 18, 2023
Coenraad PretoriusStreaming logs using RabbitMQMore data stacks are shifting towards microservices and communication between them are essential as it sometimes need to communicate to…Nov 20, 2022Nov 20, 2022
Coenraad PretoriusExtract dark data from SQL ServerMany systems exist today that were simply not optimised for time-series data analysis and machine learning. People may not even know the…Aug 21, 2022Aug 21, 2022
Coenraad PretoriusGive your cleverHome one voice with TelegramYou have too many apps on your phone already and many smart home devices each come with their own app as well. We are going to unify these…Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Coenraad PretoriusCreate a streaming log viewer using FastAPIMany times, you need to view the latest log entries generated by your app to check that everything is working or see what is currently…Jun 16, 20221Jun 16, 20221
Coenraad PretoriusImproving our data pipeline from device to cloud (bonus part)In this part bonus, we will be adding more robustness to our solution and discuss other improvements.May 14, 2022May 14, 2022
Coenraad PretoriusBuilding our big data platform (part 6)In this almost final part, we will build the last component that will ingest the transformed data into Azure Data Explorer and create…May 7, 2022May 7, 2022