Milestone 1
Project Idea: Smart Power Utilization, Monitoring, & Projecting: SPUMP
1.1 Customers
Our customers would include anyone looking to cut back power bills: apartment residents and tenants, building managers, homeowners, government agencies, etc.
1.2 needs
Specific details of power consumption and associated savings across multiple time frames (minute-to-minute, hourly, daily, etc.) presented in an easy-to-review summarizing report
Reliable, accurate data pertaining to the power consumption of individual electronic appliances and devices
Significant electricity cost reduction
Flexibility of application to different environments (homes, apartment buildings, retail locations, etc.)
1.3 Requirements
Shall monitor power usage across individual appliances and devices via CT clamps and smart meter plugs
Shall collect data in both as short and as long term scales, as reasonably possible
Shall have capacity for 100-240V, 50-60 Hz input voltage and 30A input current
Shall display trends in power usage in a user-friendly manner
Shall be compliant with all regulations pertaining to electricity monitoring
Shall have relatively easy setup and maintenance
1.4 Needs-requirements mapping
Fig. 1. Needs-requirements map.