Electrical monitoring and network enabled electrical faceplate

A network monitoring system comprising:

• a first electrical outlet having a plurality of terminal posts interconnecting a socket in said outlet to an energized electrical circuit, said socket configured to interconnect with a plug of a device to be powered from said energized electrical circuit;
• a first monitor device installed on said first outlet and comprising:
• a faceplate having an outside surface and an opposing inside surface;
• a computer attached to said inside surface;
• an antenna attached to said inside surface;
• a transceiver coupled to said antenna and operatively coupled to said computer and configured to transmit and receive via said antenna;
• a plurality of electrically conductive protrusions attached to said inside surface, said plurality of electrically conductive protrusions sized and shaped, and positioned on said surface, to contact and draw power from said plurality terminal posts when said faceplate is installed thereon, said plurality of electrically conductive protrusions providing said drawn power to said computer and to said transceiver;
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• a magnetic field sensor attached to said inside surface, said magnetic field sensor disposed on said inside surface at a location configured to detect and measure magnetic fields related to current passing through said outlet;
• a central computer server in wireless communication with said first monitor device via said transceiver;
• wherein said first monitor device computer is configured to transmit to said central computer server said measurements of said current passing through said first outlet received at said first monitor device from said magnetic field sensor.

A network monitoring system comprising:

• a first outlet having a plurality of terminal posts;
• a first monitor device installed on said first outlet and comprising:
• a faceplate having an outside surface and an opposing inside surface;
• a computer attached to said inside surface;
• an antenna attached to said inside surface;
• a transceiver coupled to said antenna and operatively coupled to said computer and configured to transmit and receive via said antenna;
• a plurality of electrically conductive protrusions attached to said inside surface, said plurality of electrically conductive protrusions sized and shaped, and positioned on said surface, to contact and draw power from said plurality terminal posts when said faceplate is installed thereon, said plurality of electrically conductive protrusions providing said drawn power to said computer and to said transceiver;
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• a magnetic field sensor attached to said inside surface, said magnetic field sensor disposed on said inside surface at a location configured to detect and measure magnetic fields related to current passing through said outlet;
• a central computer server in wireless communication with said first monitor device via said transceiver;
• a second outlet having a plurality of terminal posts;
• a second monitor device installed on said second outlet and comprising:
• a faceplate having an outside surface and an opposing inside surface;
• a computer attached to said inside surface;
• an antenna attached to said inside surface;
• a transceiver coupled to said antenna and operatively coupled to said computer and configured to transmit and receive via said antenna;
• a plurality of electrically conductive protrusions attached to said inside surface, said plurality of electrically conductive protrusions sized and shaped, and positioned on said surface, to contact and draw power from said plurality of terminal posts of said second outlet when said faceplate is installed thereon, said plurality of electrically conductive protrusions providing said drawn power to said computer and to said wireless transceiver;
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• a magnetic field sensor attached to said inside surface, said magnetic field sensor disposed on said inside surface at a location configured to detect and measure magnetic fields related to current passing through said outlet;
• wherein said first monitor device computer is configured to transmit to said central computer server said measurements of said current passing through said first outlet received at said first monitor device from said magnetic field sensor;
• wherein said second monitor device computer is configured to transmit to said central computer server said measurements of said current passing through said second outlet received at said second monitor device from said second monitor device magnetic field sensor;
• wherein said first outlet and said second outlet are wired in parallel so that the power draw from said first outlet includes power draw from said second outlet;
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• wherein said first monitor device computer can determine based on said power draw from said second outlet at said first outlet, that said first outlet and said second outlet are wired in parallel.