more ideas

Here are 2 ideas for my project 2.

My inspiration for my first idea came from an ipod dock

My idea is to have it plugged into the wall and when you charge your ipod the dock will use WiFi to talk to other appliances to find out how much power they are using. It will then upload all the information onto your ipod and you can read it off there. You can then walk around your house to the rooms which are using the most power and see why.

My 2nd idea is to have a wall mounted device. On the device i will have a floor plan of your house. Depending on how much power is being used the room will light up a certain colour. If a room is using a lot of power the room will be red and if it is using a reasonable amount then it will be green. 

I remember from the lecture that it will hard to have the floor plan of the house because each house would have to upload the floor plan to the device and it would also be hard to do if the house had more than one story.

Here is an idea which i really like which i am probably going to expand on. 

I got the main ideas for the wall mounted devices from the heat controlling device i have at home.

It is like the device above but a bit more interactive. My one at home lights up red when the heating is on. I want to use that aspect in my device. When walking past my heating device i always notice in the corner of my eye when its red. Colour can be a good way to show how much power is being used.