Building a Dashboard

jphillipsCT

I am looking into building a dashboard for the integrated Solar Array at our customers house. I would like to store daily info on the NI (if this is a good place for it) to pull from to display Daily, monthly and yearly data. I am unsure of how to write data to a file on the NI and how to pull from it. I am searching the forums and manuals but do not know the keywords even Could someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks

HARMAN_icraigie

For the data collection might be better off using something like this

http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000-overview.html

You could then simply interface with it via IP and your dashboard might look something like this. Implementing Google powermeter is probabably a better solution to manage historical data, regardless you will want to ship that data off somewhere instead of maintaining it locally on the NI.

jphillipsCT

Found the keywords

I found what I was looking for, but I understand that it would be a good idea to store the data else where.