Group Members
- Hu Dou (hdou@mit.edu)
- Orit Giguzinsky (oritgigo@mit.edu)
- Lauren Ouellette (louelle@mit.edu)
Problem Statement
Currently, home owners and facility owners only receive a monthly bill detailing their power consumption. Now that more information is available from smart appliances and meters, we seek to We seek to develop a mobile application that will allow users to manage their power consumption at a more fine-grained level. Additionally, in the future, the smart grid will provide real-time price information, which we can display to users to allow them to more efficiently schedule their power usage. Overall, we seek to allow users to We will take advantage of usage information provided by smart appliances and meters, and real-time pricing information that will be provided by future "smart grid" infrastructure. We will display this information in a way that makes it easy for users to make decisions about their power usage. Overall, we aim to help users make their energy consumption more efficient and allow them to save money.