Report: Interface for Tracking Home Energy Usage and Suggestions

This report presents the design of an application aimed at managing power usage within home appliances. The application's objective is to provide detailed information on energy consumption, facilitating efficient resource management and reducing overall energy consumption. The report outlines the application's interface, including the homepage for overall consumption viewing, appliance-specific data display, and weekly energy consumption graphs. The design conceptualization focuses on the wireframe, designed using Balsamic software, illustrating features like device monitoring, navigation buttons, and energy consumption analysis. The design rationale highlights the integration of IoT and cloud computing technologies for data collection and storage. The report concludes with a discussion on the application's potential for future energy savings and reduced wastage. The report also includes references to relevant literature on energy management and smart home technologies.

INTERFACE THAT TRACKS ENERGY USAGE AT THE
HOME AND PROVIDES ALERTS, SUGGESTIONS
INTRODUCTION
The aim of the report is to describe the application that is
designed for the purpose of managing the power usage
within the home appliance products. With the help of
efficient application it will become easy to save
resources. The objective is to design an application that
will be capable of providing information about the
resources that are used within the home appliances. The
use of energy usage application will help in managing the
electricity and will also ensure that every data are
managed within the application. The focus is to reduce
the overall energy consumption through the use of
effective application.
SCENARIO DESCRIPTION
The application is designed for the purpose of providing
better access towards the data sets and the way data are
managed within the power consumption applications.
This section of the report focuses mainly on
understanding the three different phases of using the
application. The application is designed in such a way
that it becomes easy to monitor the overall power
consumption. Three interface is associated with the
application power analysing app will be evaluated in
these parts. The first interface is related with opening the
application homepage for the purpose of viewing the
overall consumption of power through the home
appliances. The application contains all the devices the
data so that it becomes easy to analyse the overall
consumption rate. Secondly when the user selects any
particular appliances than the data related to the appliance
will be displayed. This will show that for what time the
appliance was used and the exact amount of energy that
has been consumed by the application. Thirdly, the user
has the ability to check the graph of the energy consumed
on a weekly basis. Thus it becomes easy to understand
the need of proper energy management for different
appliances.
DESIGN CONCEPTUALIZATION
This part of the paper focuses on evaluating the design of
the web frame that is needed for identifying the energy
that is consumed by the home appliances. The wireframe
is designed with the use of balsamic software. The
wireframe shows the features that are offered towards the
users once they have logged in to the application. All the
devices are connected with the app so that it becomes
easy to monitor the usage of the energy. The application
is designed with proper navigation buttons so that they
can move from the application and can share their data
consumption through different applications effectively. In
addition to this, it can be observed that the users can
select home button once they are done with the
application.
The wireframe designed is for monitoring the selected
application performance and energy usage. It is important
to evaluate the energy consumed with the appliances
needs to be monitored efficiently so that it becomes easy
to understand the reason behind failure. The interface is
designed for the purpose of understanding the weekly
basis usage and the recommended usage capacity for the
refrigerator. The consumption of energy is monitored for
the purpose of providing better knowledge regarding the
way resources and energies need to be managed.
The wireframe interface is designed for the purpose of
analyzing the appliances that are used for a particular day
and for what time they are being accesses. It is important
to understand the graph so that it becomes easy to
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evaluate the power consumption ratio. With the help of
this graph it will become easy to monitor the power
consumption. The resource needs to be organized within
the application so that it can offer better resource
management. The application wireframe is designed for
the purpose of managing and organizing the power
consumption rates.
DESIGN RATIONALE
The application power analyser is designed for the
purpose of understanding the utilisation of energy for
every application is present within a home. The
application is designed with the integration of IOT and
cloud computing technology. The data shared through the
IOT sensors that are implemented within the appliances.
Apart from these with the use of cloud computing it
becomes easy to store the data. This offers a wide range
of data storage and does not need the monitoring. Hence
it can be stated that with the use of IOT and cloud
computing it becomes easy to manage the overall data
design. In order to measure the energy that are concerned
by the appliances within the home it is important to
analyse the data that are collected using the smart sensors.
Smart sensors that implemented in every part of the
houses are responsible for collecting the data for
analysing the energy consumption. With the use of
appropriate technologies it will become easy to organize
the data sets and manages the overall performances
related to the system. The application is designed for
providing smart updates regarding the appliances and will
also ensure that proper updates are managed.
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
After evaluating the application design it can be stated
that with the use of proper wireframe design it becomes
easy to understand the overall performance of the
application. However the wireframes are designed for the
purpose of understanding the interfaces that will be
associated with the application. In the research paper all
the necessary requirements for managing home energy
are monitored and explain to successfully. Does it can be
stated that with the use of an efficient System it will
become easy to manage the consumption of energy within
the home appliances. It is expected that in future with the
help of these applications it will become easy for the
consumers to save the electricity amount. Apart from
these with proper saving management the chances of
energy wastage will also reduce. It can be concluded that
with the use of an efficient applications such as power
consumption analyses it becomes easy to manage the
overall usage.
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