The Pump Monitoring Apparatus (PuMA) monitors the fuel consumption of fuel-oil vented heaters (Toyostove and Monitor heaters).
The Need: Currently there is no way to monitor daily fuel consumption, and there is a lack of consistent and accurate heating fuel data among consumers. As a result, it is often difficult to measure the impact of weatherization and energy efficiency programs.
Consumers that are locked into high fuel prices can benefit from a better understanding of their heating patterns, and this may lead to cost-saving habits.
The Market: This device may empower individual homeowners to understand their annual heat loads. Tribal governments or electric utilities could use the device to collect residential heating data, and to understand how a renewable energy may be utilized with dispatchable loads. State organizations can create baseline heating data for energy efficiency programs.