I am a web developer and understand the basics of electronics but I am not an electrician. It would appear your solution is based on a unique circuit breaker for each machine, which also makes sense to me and we thought of that.
The issue is that we don't have that at present. For whatever reasons (or mistakes) each machine does not have a unique circuit -- they share a wire inside the of the wall. I suggested to the boss that we may need to change that, but can you clarify a bit?
Thank you.
We are looking for a smart switch solution. To explain, our firm
manages buildings with temporary housing units. The tenants have
assigned time slots to use the laundry machines. Each tenant has an ID
card with a barcode. I want for them to be able to pass their ID card
through a card reader device, and that device will (via a PC) contact
our server and “ask” if this person has permission to use the machine
at this time, and if so, it will turn on the laundry machine. Seems
this could be achieved by a smart switch that could turn off or on the
electricity to any given machine.
We have Speed Queen Commercial machines which use a 4-prong 240V
Commercial dryer power supply.
The communications part we can handle -- we have a web development
team. What we need is hardware that can do this. Do you have smart
switches with an API that could handle this?
If so, let me know how it would work and please send a link to the
documentation.
Thank you,
David
Midway Living Web Team
New York City
