Self-Hosting Service

This article is for users who wish to use IAMMETER meters on platforms other than IAMMETER-Cloud.

In addition to providing monitoring services on the public cloud platform, IAMMETER-Cloud, IAMMETER also offers the following two private deployment options.

• IAMMETER-Central: Designed for business partners.
• IAMMETER-Docker: Designed for individual users.

Both deployment options are free of charge and can be deployed on the customer's own servers. Below is a brief introduction to these two systems.

IAMMETER-Central

For detailed installation and usage, please refer to IAMMETER-Central.

IAMMETER-Central is a middleware system developed by IAMMETER for enterprise users, with the following features:

• It does not provide business functions (energy consumption monitoring analysis, solar monitoring analysis).
• The middleware functionality mainly handles the storage and management of meter data (voltage, current, power, kilowatt-hours).
• It provides a rich set of APIs that customers can use to integrate meter data into their own management systems or develop independent front-end pages.
• Supports MySQL and MariaDB.
• Only IAMMETER product SNs (all IAMMETER meter SNs and Virtual Meter SNs) can be added to IAMMETER-Central.

This is the most recommended mode for integrating IAMMETER meters with customers' ERP systems.

While all IAMMETER meters have flexible upload interface definitions, allowing data to be easily uploaded directly to the customer's system (please refer to the last section of this article for specific methods), calling IAMMETER-Central's API is obviously simpler and faster than developing code on the server side to receive and parse the uploaded data protocol and format.

IAMMETER-Docker

For detailed instructions, please refer to 8.1 Deploy your own system with Docker.

IAMMETER-Docker is a private deployment energy monitoring system developed by IAMMETER for individual users, with the following main features:

• Provides simple business logic functions, suitable for personal energy consumption monitoring or solar monitoring.
• Supports SQLite and MySQL.
• No SN limitation, users can use custom SNs.

Open Source Solutions

In addition, all IAMMETER energy meters can also be integrated into mainstream open-source smart home systems, as shown in the image below.

For more details, refer to: Home Assistant, openHAB, NodeRed, ioBroker, Zabbix, Thingsboard, etc..

Customer's Own System

Finally, all IAMMETER meters provide a variety of interfaces (http/https, tcp/tls, mqtt), making it easy to integrate into the customer's own system.

For more details, refer to WEM3050T Utilize Open Source Interface.