CITIZEN-SCIENCE GRID MEASUREMENT

Measure the grid you live on.

GridWitness turns the meters you already own — smart plugs, 3-phase meters, inverters, DIY PMUs — into a distributed, UTC-true measurement fabric for the GB grid. Four professional PMUs cost thousands; four hundred amateur nodes cost nothing and cover the whole island.

Default is anonymous and frequency-only. Every step beyond that is your explicit, revocable choice.

Frequency is global

The grid frequency is the same for everyone at a given instant. Any node can measure it, and on its own it's genuinely useful — with zero information about your household.

Density nobody else has

We don't replace professional PMUs — we build the thing nobody has: geographic breadth. Many cheap nodes plus a few GPS anchors map the whole network.

Privacy is the deal

We ask for the least revealing thing that's useful, and never bundle the sensitive channels. Consent is per data-type and location is tiered — always reversible.

How it fits together

1 · Your node

A Home Assistant integration (or your own uploader) reads the meters you already have.

2 · An API key

Sign up here, pick what to share, and get a key that registers your node.

3 · Ingest

Batches stream over HTTPS to ingest.twinscrollgridbalancer.co.uk, UTC-corrected and deduplicated.

4 · Research lake

Anonymised, derived-location data feeds grid research — never your address or token.

Ready to put your meter on the map?

Create a free account, issue an API key, and start contributing in minutes.

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