# Collecting messages and send a avarage
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/collecting-messages-and-send-a-avarage/41841
**Category:** General
**Created:** [1 March 2021 17:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/collecting-messages-and-send-a-avarage/41841 "2021-03-01T17:15:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Muschelpuster](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Muschelpuster)
#### Post date: [1 March 2021 17:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/collecting-messages-and-send-a-avarage/41841/1 "2021-03-01T17:15:11Z")
Hello,
I'm new at node-red and so here is my first stupid question:
I use the smart-meter-node to get values from my eletric-power-meter over a USB-IR-Adapter. That works well and so at first thanks to the developer of this node.
But I get a message every few seconds. Thats great for a realtime-monitor but it's to much for a database. So it will be nice to collect a number of values and give out a avarage of this. Maybe every minute 1 or after 10 or 20 incomming messages. Is this possible?
Niels
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### Author:  [@davidz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/davidz)
#### Post date: [1 March 2021 17:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/collecting-messages-and-send-a-avarage/41841/2 "2021-03-01T17:59:35Z")
You can use the "smooth" node, send an average of 10 or a given number, only emit one message after reaching the average number.
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### Author:  [@Muschelpuster](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Muschelpuster)
#### Post date: [1 March 2021 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/collecting-messages-and-send-a-avarage/41841/3 "2021-03-01T19:02:12Z")
Thanks David, how cool. What a easy way!
Niels
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [15 March 2021 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/collecting-messages-and-send-a-avarage/41841/4 "2021-03-15T19:02:21Z")
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