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October 9
Vision
2009
“Interactive Energy consumption Dashboard” will increase awareness of energy consumption with the masses and suggest intelligent ways to make incremental improvements to conserve energy.
Interactive Energy Dashboards
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
Table of Contents 1.
Introduction
3
2.
Positioning 2.1 Problem Statement Product Position Statement
3 5 5
3.
Stakeholder Descriptions
6
3.1 3.2
6 6
4.
5.
Stakeholder Summary User Environment
Product Overview
7
4.1
7
Needs and Features
Scope Definition
8
5.1
8
Critical Feature Boundaries
6.
Other Product Requirements
8
7.
References
8
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Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision 1. Introduction The goal of this “Interactive Energy consumption Dashboard” is to increase awareness of energy consumption with the masses and to suggest intelligent ways to make incremental improvements to conserve energy. This has a cumulative ripple effect in conserving energy, when spread over many it should lead to a significant impact on energy conservation. The proposed Dashboard will help the masses visualize the excessive consumption of electricity, water, gas and consumable resources on a regular frequency and help us make intelligent choices in usage. In a blog post labeled “Power to the People” Google [1] outlined why it is important to watch our usage of electricity. The “Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment” plans to take this a few steps further by using this awareness model and applying it to increase awareness of how much energy we consume in our built environment. The Dashboard being proposed will tell the user how much is being used, where cuts can be made to get the biggest bang for the buck and how much an individual is using relative to the larger whole. The differentiation between Google’s dashboard and the proposed interactive dashboard is substantial owing to the comprehensive approach to visualizing all energy usage. Google today focuses solely on electricity and requires the smart grid as a prerequisite to be effective.
2. Positioning Imagine how hard it would be to stick to a budget in a store with no prices. Well, that's pretty much how we buy electricity and other utilities we use today. Your utility company sends you a bill at the end of the month with very few details. Most people don't know how much electricity their appliances use, where in the house they are wasting electricity, or how much the bill might go up during different seasons. But in a world where everyone had a detailed understanding of their home energy use, we could find all sorts of ways to save energy and lower electricity bills. In fact, studies show that access to home energy information results in savings between 5-15% on monthly electricity bills. It may not sound like much, but if half of America's households cut their energy demand by 10 percent, it would be the equivalent of taking eight million cars off the road. [2]
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
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Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009 FIGURE 1: ELECTRICITY USAGE
If we apply the same model of awareness to other energy sources, such as water, gas and any consumable product that we use everyday, a small incremental saving at an individual level can amount to an enormous saving when translated to the masses.
FIGURE 2: WATER USAGE The Dashboard therefore has great potential in helping us to conserve energy by making us aware of how much we use on a daily basis.
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
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Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
2.1 Problem Statement The problem of affects the impact of which is
a successful solution would be
Individuals, lacking tools to visualize how much energy they consume every day, The community as a whole, in turn the entire population on this earth. Results in wasted energy resources, particularly non renewable resources that have a significant impact on sustaining life. An interactive Dashboard to help us become aware, an interactive dashboard that is affordable and pervasive, An interactive dashboard that shows us how we can conserve energy. An interactive dashboard for the masses.
Product Position Statement Why
How
The (competing product name)
That
Unlike Our Product
Confidential
Because We the masses need to become consciously green, but to do so we the masses need tools, measurements and dashboards that help us make intelligent choices Alerting, performance monitoring and prediction are concepts used heavily in IT to help with availability and proactive maintenance. These concepts can be applied to help make the built environment greener. Google is working on the smart grid technology - see http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/google-wants-in-onthe-smart-grid.ars. Companies are already working on ways to do this for Electricity - see http://www.tendrilinc.com/consumers/products/vantage/ Focuses only on electricity which is only one part of the equation. However pervasiveness of these technologies is a far more significant challenge. Google is concentrating on dashboards for visualizing electricity, currently it is very expensive and therefore cannot be pervasive. The proposed “Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment”, concentrates on attacking the problem from multiple facets of energy consumption while focusing on ubiquitous technology available to the masses
Fernandi, 2009
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Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
3. Stakeholder Descriptions 3.1 Stakeholder Summary Name The Community
Description A group of people who make up the neighborhood or community or tenants of a building.
The Family
A significant unit within the community comprising of Parents and children
Individual
The single unit within the community
Responsibilities This community has a commitment to ensure that they as a group consume energy in a sustainable fashion for which this Dashboard has to be designed to easily maintainable. The community is also committed to ensuring that the system will be marketable and will monitor the projects progress and funding allocation. Each family has a commitment to ensure that they consume energy in a sustainable fashion for which this Dashboard will be designed. It will be easily maintainable and be ubiquitous. Each family unit also has at the responsibility to monitor the progress of the project funding and progress at each iteration Each individual has a commitment to ensure that consume energy in a sustainable fashion for which this Dashboard will be designed, so it is easily maintainable and ubiquitous. Each individual also has the responsibility to monitor the progress of the project, funding and will approve the deliverable and provide feedback
3.2 User Environment The user environment is comprised of individuals, families and the community as whole. The house hold or building is considered the smallest unit for implementation. The task cycle is a daily recurring activity, with the cumulative effect tabulated over days, months and years. It spans across the neighborhood, town, city, state, nation and the world. While consuming energy is a 24 hour task, the effort expended to monitor and tweak usage will become ubiquitous over time. Just like the speedometer in a car, this Dashboard aims to provide much needed feedback on energy use and waste. There is no comprehensive product that is in existence today. Google is working on a dashboard that is tied into the smart electrical grid, but the pre-requisite is the grid which the masses cannot afford. This product will model itself on the dashboard features that Google has proposed which it is manufacturing in partnership with TED on a limited basis. Other products available are as follows:
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 6
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
4. Product Overview 4.1 Needs and Features Need
Priority
Features
Planned Release
Dashboard to monitor electrical usage
1
Visualize every day usage of electricity and suggest ways to conserve using artificial intelligence
11/24/2009
Dashboard to monitor water usage
2
Visualize every day usage of water and suggest ways to conserve using artificial intelligence
2/24/2010
Dashboard to monitor any consumable energy source
3
Visualize every day usage of consumable energy sources and suggest ways to conserve using artificial intelligence
5/24/2010
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 7
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
5. Scope Definition 5.1 Critical Feature Boundaries Feature Dashboard to monitor daily household or building electrical energy usage
Dashboard to monitor daily household or building water usage
Dashboard to monitor daily household or building consumable energy usage
Includes Simple easy to use web browser based Dashboard showing current usage, daily totals and suggested ways of conserving electricity. It should permit the user to interact and participate in the process. Aggregates data over households and buildings in a zone Simple easy to use web browser based Dashboard showing current usage, daily totals and suggested ways of conserving water. It should permit the user to interact and participate in the process. Aggregates data over households and buildings in a zone Simple easy to use web browser based Dashboard showing current usage, daily totals and suggested ways of conserving consumable energy sources. It should permit the user to interact and participate in the process. Aggregates data over households and buildings in a zone
Excludes Expensive hardware implementation that will impede adoption by the masses.
Expensive hardware implementation that will impede adoption by the masses.
Expensive hardware implementation that will impede adoption by the masses.
6. Other Product Requirements Requirement
Priority
Planned Release
Smart sensors to detect granular electrical usage.
1
2/24/2010
Smart sensors to detect granular Water usage
2
5/24/2010
Smart sensors to detect granular usage of consumable energy
3
8/24/2010
7. References 1. Google Power meter project, http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html 2. Environmental change Institute, http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/electric-metering.php
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
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Vision
2009
“Interactive Energy consumption Dashboard” will increase awareness of energy consumption with the masses and suggest intelligent ways to make incremental improvements to conserve energy.
Interactive Energy Dashboards
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
Table of Contents 1.
Introduction
3
2.
Positioning 2.1 Problem Statement Product Position Statement
3 5 5
3.
Stakeholder Descriptions
6
3.1 3.2
6 6
4.
5.
Stakeholder Summary User Environment
Product Overview
7
4.1
7
Needs and Features
Scope Definition
8
5.1
8
Critical Feature Boundaries
6.
Other Product Requirements
8
7.
References
8
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 2
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision 1. Introduction The goal of this “Interactive Energy consumption Dashboard” is to increase awareness of energy consumption with the masses and to suggest intelligent ways to make incremental improvements to conserve energy. This has a cumulative ripple effect in conserving energy, when spread over many it should lead to a significant impact on energy conservation. The proposed Dashboard will help the masses visualize the excessive consumption of electricity, water, gas and consumable resources on a regular frequency and help us make intelligent choices in usage. In a blog post labeled “Power to the People” Google [1] outlined why it is important to watch our usage of electricity. The “Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment” plans to take this a few steps further by using this awareness model and applying it to increase awareness of how much energy we consume in our built environment. The Dashboard being proposed will tell the user how much is being used, where cuts can be made to get the biggest bang for the buck and how much an individual is using relative to the larger whole. The differentiation between Google’s dashboard and the proposed interactive dashboard is substantial owing to the comprehensive approach to visualizing all energy usage. Google today focuses solely on electricity and requires the smart grid as a prerequisite to be effective.
2. Positioning Imagine how hard it would be to stick to a budget in a store with no prices. Well, that's pretty much how we buy electricity and other utilities we use today. Your utility company sends you a bill at the end of the month with very few details. Most people don't know how much electricity their appliances use, where in the house they are wasting electricity, or how much the bill might go up during different seasons. But in a world where everyone had a detailed understanding of their home energy use, we could find all sorts of ways to save energy and lower electricity bills. In fact, studies show that access to home energy information results in savings between 5-15% on monthly electricity bills. It may not sound like much, but if half of America's households cut their energy demand by 10 percent, it would be the equivalent of taking eight million cars off the road. [2]
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 3
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009 FIGURE 1: ELECTRICITY USAGE
If we apply the same model of awareness to other energy sources, such as water, gas and any consumable product that we use everyday, a small incremental saving at an individual level can amount to an enormous saving when translated to the masses.
FIGURE 2: WATER USAGE The Dashboard therefore has great potential in helping us to conserve energy by making us aware of how much we use on a daily basis.
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 4
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
2.1 Problem Statement The problem of affects the impact of which is
a successful solution would be
Individuals, lacking tools to visualize how much energy they consume every day, The community as a whole, in turn the entire population on this earth. Results in wasted energy resources, particularly non renewable resources that have a significant impact on sustaining life. An interactive Dashboard to help us become aware, an interactive dashboard that is affordable and pervasive, An interactive dashboard that shows us how we can conserve energy. An interactive dashboard for the masses.
Product Position Statement Why
How
The (competing product name)
That
Unlike Our Product
Confidential
Because We the masses need to become consciously green, but to do so we the masses need tools, measurements and dashboards that help us make intelligent choices Alerting, performance monitoring and prediction are concepts used heavily in IT to help with availability and proactive maintenance. These concepts can be applied to help make the built environment greener. Google is working on the smart grid technology - see http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/google-wants-in-onthe-smart-grid.ars. Companies are already working on ways to do this for Electricity - see http://www.tendrilinc.com/consumers/products/vantage/ Focuses only on electricity which is only one part of the equation. However pervasiveness of these technologies is a far more significant challenge. Google is concentrating on dashboards for visualizing electricity, currently it is very expensive and therefore cannot be pervasive. The proposed “Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment”, concentrates on attacking the problem from multiple facets of energy consumption while focusing on ubiquitous technology available to the masses
Fernandi, 2009
Page 5
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
3. Stakeholder Descriptions 3.1 Stakeholder Summary Name The Community
Description A group of people who make up the neighborhood or community or tenants of a building.
The Family
A significant unit within the community comprising of Parents and children
Individual
The single unit within the community
Responsibilities This community has a commitment to ensure that they as a group consume energy in a sustainable fashion for which this Dashboard has to be designed to easily maintainable. The community is also committed to ensuring that the system will be marketable and will monitor the projects progress and funding allocation. Each family has a commitment to ensure that they consume energy in a sustainable fashion for which this Dashboard will be designed. It will be easily maintainable and be ubiquitous. Each family unit also has at the responsibility to monitor the progress of the project funding and progress at each iteration Each individual has a commitment to ensure that consume energy in a sustainable fashion for which this Dashboard will be designed, so it is easily maintainable and ubiquitous. Each individual also has the responsibility to monitor the progress of the project, funding and will approve the deliverable and provide feedback
3.2 User Environment The user environment is comprised of individuals, families and the community as whole. The house hold or building is considered the smallest unit for implementation. The task cycle is a daily recurring activity, with the cumulative effect tabulated over days, months and years. It spans across the neighborhood, town, city, state, nation and the world. While consuming energy is a 24 hour task, the effort expended to monitor and tweak usage will become ubiquitous over time. Just like the speedometer in a car, this Dashboard aims to provide much needed feedback on energy use and waste. There is no comprehensive product that is in existence today. Google is working on a dashboard that is tied into the smart electrical grid, but the pre-requisite is the grid which the masses cannot afford. This product will model itself on the dashboard features that Google has proposed which it is manufacturing in partnership with TED on a limited basis. Other products available are as follows:
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 6
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
4. Product Overview 4.1 Needs and Features Need
Priority
Features
Planned Release
Dashboard to monitor electrical usage
1
Visualize every day usage of electricity and suggest ways to conserve using artificial intelligence
11/24/2009
Dashboard to monitor water usage
2
Visualize every day usage of water and suggest ways to conserve using artificial intelligence
2/24/2010
Dashboard to monitor any consumable energy source
3
Visualize every day usage of consumable energy sources and suggest ways to conserve using artificial intelligence
5/24/2010
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 7
Interactive Dashboard for a Greener Built Environment Vision
Author: Terry Fernandez Date: 10/05/2009
5. Scope Definition 5.1 Critical Feature Boundaries Feature Dashboard to monitor daily household or building electrical energy usage
Dashboard to monitor daily household or building water usage
Dashboard to monitor daily household or building consumable energy usage
Includes Simple easy to use web browser based Dashboard showing current usage, daily totals and suggested ways of conserving electricity. It should permit the user to interact and participate in the process. Aggregates data over households and buildings in a zone Simple easy to use web browser based Dashboard showing current usage, daily totals and suggested ways of conserving water. It should permit the user to interact and participate in the process. Aggregates data over households and buildings in a zone Simple easy to use web browser based Dashboard showing current usage, daily totals and suggested ways of conserving consumable energy sources. It should permit the user to interact and participate in the process. Aggregates data over households and buildings in a zone
Excludes Expensive hardware implementation that will impede adoption by the masses.
Expensive hardware implementation that will impede adoption by the masses.
Expensive hardware implementation that will impede adoption by the masses.
6. Other Product Requirements Requirement
Priority
Planned Release
Smart sensors to detect granular electrical usage.
1
2/24/2010
Smart sensors to detect granular Water usage
2
5/24/2010
Smart sensors to detect granular usage of consumable energy
3
8/24/2010
7. References 1. Google Power meter project, http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html 2. Environmental change Institute, http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/electric-metering.php
Confidential
Fernandi, 2009
Page 8
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