For my project 2 I plan on designing a wall mounted power-monitoring device. My device is mainly using the concept of colour to show how much power/energy the people in the household are using. The main look for my device is like two 12-hour clocks in one another. The inside clock representing 12am -11am and the outer clock representing 12pm – 11pm. Depending on the amount of power the house uses in each hour the segments between the two times will light up a certain colour. Red meaning over the recommended usage, green is the recommended and blue meaning under.
If you click on a time you can see how much power each of your rooms are using. You can also compare different days to see if there is a trend on the amount of power you use during the same times each day.
I am going to show this by using adobe flash to show my device. Using Flash I am able to show to show the buttons, which will be on my device and show the different screens.
My target audience is mainly aimed at families who want to save power. The idea for this idea was mainly from my own house. In my house we do use a lot more power than we should from leaving lights on, to leaving our phone chargers left in the wall. I think that there will be many other houses like mine who do exactly what we do when it comes to the power in the house. In my house we have a device, which controls the heating, and when it is on the main screen is red. It is small but because it is an odd colour compared to the wallpaper I always notice it when I walk past it. That is what I am hoping my device will do so whenever someone in the house walks past it and sees the odd colour they will actually look at it instead of just walk past it.
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