Energy Monitoring
Home Energy Dashboard
So you have the technology and the building fabric to make a difference. How about monitoring your home’s energy consumption? A product like the ‘Wattson’ shown allows a family to monitor their energy consumption and make informed decisions on how they use appliances.
How it works
‘Wattson enables you to learn about your own personal energy use through interactive play. The display shows the power being used across the home and reacts instantly to any changes. Turning any appliance On, Off or to Standby creates an immediate and understandable effect, showing how mush power that appliance uses, and how much it costs to run. Electricity changes from being an invisible, intangible idea, into a visible, tangible entity with real and quantifiable consequences for using it. You have a choice of viewing instantaneous power at that moment in Watts or in Pounds Per Year – how much it would cost if everything was left as it is for a year.
This allows people tounderstand how much appliances cost to run, even when on standby. Wattson has a non-verbal display, designed to be understood intuitively. Coloured light and patterns shine through the underside of Wattson. Their behavior reflects the power consumption and the long term energy use of your home. Wattson provides an instant awareness of the energy ‘state’ of your house. www.diykyoto.com. Taking this idea further could benefit from a site wide energy display to inform the community of the developments performance.