Power usage over the holidays

Over our Holiday i recorded the amount of power which was used in my bed room at home. The main things which were plugged in during my recordings were my TV, Xbox 360, Lamp, Ipod and phone charger and my speakers. Not all of them were on or plugged in during some of the days. I tried to take the readings around the same time to get a fair test.

There is a lot of variation of how much power i used. It all depended on what other things where on during the day and how bored i am.

When monitoring my power and energy usage of my room I found out that it was very hard to actually figure out what I was measuring. The device that I used didn’t tell you much of what was happening except just having a number on a screen. It didn’t tell you what the number is or represented.

The device is quite dull and boring, there isn’t much interaction on the device besides one button that just changed the number on the screen but again it didn’t tell you what the number was.

For my design I want to move away from using just a lot of numbers because I think it is quite boring and people aren’t interested in the statistics of how much power people are using. So I want to use as little numbers in my design  and somehow use another idea how to show how much energy/power that people are using.