How It Works

At Utila Power Company, there was no centralized way to visualize the total energy output from the generators. The only available measurement tool was an industrial ION8400 meter, which lacked an easy method for data extraction. However, when connected to the network, it provided a web interface accessible only through Internet Explorer.

To bypass these hardware limitations, I developed a web scraping solution to extract energy data from the interface, storing minute-by-minute readings in a MySQL database. The data was then visualized using React ⚛️ and ChartJS 📈, enabling real-time monitoring of generation trends, demand, and system status.