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Hopefully you will share your progress here or start your own thread. I'm not an EE, Programmer or Electronics Technician...however I can read schematics and know my way around circuit boards, components and computers. With a similar reference go-by, a few tips and some research I can usually...

Another parameter to monitor could be to buy a oil temp probe to put in place of the dipstick and measure oil temp. In addition to using for engine temp monitoring on an air cooled generator; oil temp could be a good parameter to determine how long to apply glow plug heat if using an added auto...

I didn't refresh and missed your earlier post. Looks like you already found what I later discovered! Agree he has a good start and it needs to be expanded.

Generator Current Sensing with Arduino Here is one solution for monitoring AC load/balancing. Although this particular application doesn't utilize any telemetry capability (Wi-Fi): http://firebottleradio.com/watts/index.html

Looks like this guy was using an Arduino as a remote start controller for his generator: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=110440.0 Also if you Google around a bit you will see guys using them to monitor various automotive engine parameters. Here is one I found...

What do you mean by hardened IO? Here is a ruggedized Arduino board ("Features include overcurrent and overvoltage protection on all I/O pins...") it also appears to accept 24V: http://www.ruggedcircuits.com/microcontroller-boards/ruggeduino...

I do too! However, it requires me to get up off the couch when watching TV (no fun there :( ) to go look at it since it gets plugged into a wall outlet during an outage. Also there is no way for it to alert me if anything starts to go south AC power-wise so I feel obligated to check it more...

A remote monitoring project is a great idea! Sure would be useful to be able to use my tablet to monitor various parameters remotely during an extended outage on my -002a (oil pressure, temp, fuel level maybe using aux fuel level probe?, frequency or rpm, voltage with leg loading 120/240...