diff --git a/notebooks/Gas Toggle Demo.ipynb b/notebooks/Gas Toggle Demo.ipynb
index 7d8a5d5..2f5d0a6 100644
--- a/notebooks/Gas Toggle Demo.ipynb	
+++ b/notebooks/Gas Toggle Demo.ipynb	
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.5.0"
+   "version": "3.6.3"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
diff --git a/notebooks/Threshold_detection.ipynb b/notebooks/Threshold_detection.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f064a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notebooks/Threshold_detection.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# Intro #\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This analysis counts the total amount of time - and total consumption when - a series goes above (or below) a certain threshold.\n",
+    "It also returns the count of these occurances."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Imports ##"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import pandas as pd\n",
+    "import opengrid as og\n",
+    "from opengrid import datasets\n",
+    "import numpy as np\n",
+    "\n",
+    "plt = og.plot_style()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Prepare data ##"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# We have a dataset prepared that contains gas sensor data in W on a minutely resolution\n",
+    "df = datasets.get('gas_dec2016_min')\n",
+    "df = df['313b']\n",
+    "\n",
+    "ts = df.squeeze()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "threshold = 25000\n",
+    "freq = 'min'"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Plot ##"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "plt.plot(ts)\n",
+    "plt.axhline(threshold, color='r')"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "result = og.analysis.threshold_detection(ts, threshold, freq=freq)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "result"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.6.3"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 2
+}
diff --git a/opengrid/library/analysis.py b/opengrid/library/analysis.py
index c67e520..626d93e 100644
--- a/opengrid/library/analysis.py
+++ b/opengrid/library/analysis.py
@@ -69,6 +69,37 @@ def do_analysis(self, agg, starttime=dt.time.min, endtime=dt.time.max):
             self.result = pd.DataFrame()
 
 
+def threshold_detection(ts, threshold, direction='above', freq=None):
+    """
+    Describe timeseries in regards to a specified threshold
+
+    :param ts: Pandas Series
+    :param threshold: number
+    :param direction: string (above or below)
+    :param freq: string
+    :return: dict
+    """
+    if freq is not None:
+        ts = ts.resample(freq).sum()
+
+    if direction == 'above':
+        thresh_ts = ts > threshold
+    elif direction == 'below':
+        thresh_ts = ts < threshold
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("direction can only be 'above' or 'below'.")
+
+    duration = len(ts[thresh_ts])
+    amount = (ts[thresh_ts] - threshold).sum()
+
+    on_toggles = thresh_ts
+    shifted = np.logical_not(on_toggles.shift(1))
+    result = on_toggles & shifted
+    count = result.sum()
+
+    return dict([('Total_amount', amount), ('Total_duration', duration), ('count', count)])
+
+
 def standby(df, resolution='24h', time_window=None):
     """
     Compute standby power
diff --git a/opengrid/tests/test_analyses.py b/opengrid/tests/test_analyses.py
index 796eb92..961d791 100644
--- a/opengrid/tests/test_analyses.py
+++ b/opengrid/tests/test_analyses.py
@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@ def test_load_factor(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(ts, pd.Series)
         self.assertAlmostEqual(175.0345212009457, (lf2 * 800).iloc[0])
 
+    def test_threshold_detection(self):
+        df = datasets.get('gas_dec2016_min')
+        df = df['313b']
+
+        ts = df.squeeze()
+
+        threshold = 25000
+        freq = 'min'
+
+        result = og.analysis.threshold_detection(ts, threshold, freq=freq)
+
+        self.assertEqual(result['count'], 19)
+        self.assertEqual(result['Total_duration'], 22)
+        self.assertAlmostEqual(result['Total_amount'], 24335.314876027405)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()