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- The Mazzini Project Take control of your electricity bill Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com
- Climate change
- Rising energy consumption
- We love our gadget habit
- Energy costs are rising
- Need to address demand as well as supply
- How much electricity are you wasting?
- I don’t know. Do you?
- You could measure overall consumption
- People are already doing this…
- DIY Kyoto’s Wattson
- The Owl
- Efergy
- Eco-eye
- … but it’s very coarse-grained
- See http://www.electricity-monitor.com/features-comparison-chart-i-26.html for a comparison
- Or measure devices one-by-one
- Using something like…
- Kill-A-Watt
- Enerjar http://enerjar.net
- But…
- Results are displayed locally
- Only measures cumulative energy
- What if your electricity bill was itemised like your phone bill?
- See which appliances used the most power
- What if your electricity bill was itemised like your phone bill?
- Spot patterns in usage over time
- Taking control
- Measuring your power usage would let you target your efforts. But…
- Taking control
- … could it do more?
- Taking control
- What if devices were automatically turned off overnight, or when you were at work?
- Taking control
- What if you could easily turn off all non-essential devices when you went to bed, or left the house?
- Taking control
- What if ancillary devices (like a printer) automatically turned themselves on and off whenever the master device was switched on or off?
- The Mazzini Project aims to build such a system
- A family of autonomous, power -monitoring, controllable sockets
- The Mazzini Project aims to build such a system
- Simple plug-in-and-go installation
- Monitors power usage and reports regularly via wireless to a computer or “master” unit
- Attached appliance can be turned on or off remotely via wireless, or…
- … based on decisions from in-built “behaviour” program
- Scalable
- Useful from the first one you install
- Add additional units as quickly as you want
- Open Standards
- Will use existing open standards for data where possible
- Will publish the specification for any new data formats or communication protocols defined
- Open Source
- Desire is to release both the hardware and software as open source to encourage new applications and developments from users
- Extensible. Reconfigurable.
- Software can be upgraded or reconfigured in the field – it will be easy to download new behaviours
- Investigating the possibility of non-techie user hardware extensibility
- Tell me more!
- Still in development, but if you’re interested then please get in touch – adrianm@mcqn.com
- Check for project updates at http://www.mcqn.com/research
- Photo Credits
- Power substation: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/866669
- Switches and dials: http://www.flickr.com/photos/albedo/97915333/
- Wattson: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksimpkins/2120466739/
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