Other major applications are listed here:
 
Monitoring of electricity (and other utilities) consumption
Interfaces to third party pulse output utility meters (eg. Ampy UK,
    EZmeter, USA) via any suitable digital inputs (e.g. DIO, QRI, etc.)
 
Cortex offers full support for 'meter' and 'multiple meter' objects
 
Display instantaneous / periodic / cumulative consumption
 
Display periodic / cumulative cost
 
Display aggregated data from multiple meters
 
Remote access to metering data (e.g. by Web browser, e-mail or phone)
 
User defined actions upon user defined consumption rate thresholds