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TheHydra
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2 years ago

Power BI / custom hardware project question

Hi all, I figured that the Developer forum may be the best place for my enquiry, so my apologies if this is incorrect!   I'm a recent AI Masters degree graduate and I'm looking to set my own bus...
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lbendlin
Super User
2 years ago

 

The idea is that it would typically pull data from on-site smart energy meters, water meters and such.

 

No.  This data needs to be pushed into a streaming or push dataset by the originating system or a broker (even Power Automate could do it in a cinch but requires port openings which you may want to avoid).

 

What I am wondering is if anybody might have any thoughts (or experience) on using something like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi for this kind of task

 

Absolutely.  Great choice. Been using RaspBerry PIs to push temperature/humidity/pressure data from multiple sensors like a BME280 into a streaming dataset for many years with no issues at all.  You'll want to program in a little local buffer storage for cases when the Edge computer can't see the Power BI service temporarily.

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    TheHydra
    New Member
    2 years ago

    Thank you lbendlin, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. I was wondering if you might be able to elaborate a little bit further on your first point, re the streaming or push dataset? I'm not very familiar with these?

    Many thanks!

    K