User Analysis

Home owners

Shared home users, with roommates

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User B is a young male who recently graduated from college. He rents an apartment and shares it with a roommate. Although he and his roommate have different life styles and thus different energy consumption patterns, they

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receive one gross energy bill each month, and evenly split up the cost.

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He thus wants to know more fine-grained information that correlates to each individual’s profile.

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He is up to date with new technologies

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. His computer experience has mostly been on desktop computers. With a tablet, he will use it in his home on a weekly or monthly basis. With a smart phone, he may use it at any time.

He doesn't have detailed knowledge on how much

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each individual device consumes, but

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is curious to know. He doesn't have much smart grid knowledge. With the application, he just wants to know how much energy and cost in general. 

He is concerned with security and privacy. If the application can operate via Internet, he wants to make sure it's secure and manages privacy right.   

Business users

To accommodate business users, features have to be scalable to larger numbers and different types of devices

Task Analysis

• Monitor energy consumption of each device, and aggregate consumption
• Control devices
• View price information received from grid
• Sell generated power back to utility company