Project number
16059
Organization
Tucson Electric Power
Academic year
2016-2017
The goal is to design and test a software application that influences how customers manage electricity use. The mobile application shows how much energy the customer is using and recommends ways to decrease consumption. It can also turn air conditioners on and off.
Better energy management by consumers means that utilities don’t have to ramp up production as quickly in peak demand hours. The team built a scaled down model of the real-world setup that would be required. The design measures energy usage using current transformers that connect to a 4Duino microcontroller, which records the data to a server.
Utility customers can use the mobile application to see their energy usage expressed in kilowatt-hours and dollars.
Better energy management by consumers means that utilities don’t have to ramp up production as quickly in peak demand hours. The team built a scaled down model of the real-world setup that would be required. The design measures energy usage using current transformers that connect to a 4Duino microcontroller, which records the data to a server.
Utility customers can use the mobile application to see their energy usage expressed in kilowatt-hours and dollars.