mobile device as a smart metering display
DESCRIPTION
The presentation for the UMIC FMA Workshop, 26th of February 2010TRANSCRIPT
Mobile Device as a Smart Metering Display
Oleksandr Lobunets, Fraunhofer [email protected]
UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications, UMIC Research Center, Aachen
February 26th 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Outline
• Introduction
• Technology evaluation
• Case 1: Smart metering display
• Case 2: Sensors ecosystem display
• Conclusions
Friday, February 26, 2010
Meters UI
Friday, February 26, 2010
Interacting with meters
Images from:http://www.segodnya.ua/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5057334.stm
Locating Reading Registering
Friday, February 26, 2010
Usage data analysis
Friday, February 26, 2010
Takes time, slow feedback, manual work, errors, annoying, less control...
Reading process
Friday, February 26, 2010
• Real-time or near-time registration usage
• Remote and local meter reading
• Remote services activation/deactivation
• Tamper-detection
• Data-storage
• Advanced tariffs
Smart Metering
R van Gerwen, S Jaarsma, and K Wilhite. Smart metering. Leonardo-energy. org, Jan 2006. URL: http://www.helio-international.org/projects/ SmartMetering.Paper.pdf.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Mobile display fits perfectly...
Reading process
Friday, February 26, 2010
• Everyone has a mobile/smart/PDA?
• Reusing existing devices infrastructure
• Handheld device as a “swiss-knife”
• Advanced hardware and software platform
• No additional deployment requirements
• Costs / Fun
Mobile display?
Friday, February 26, 2010
Technology evaluation
Friday, February 26, 2010
MeterRead
ZaehlerstandSmartMeter
MeterReadings
...there are dozens of others
Case 1: Related works...
Friday, February 26, 2010
Case 1: Users tasks
What's happening now?(Overview /
Dashboard)
View recent consumption
number Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Annual
consumption number
Visualize consumption
numbers
View the costs
Specify tariffs
View history (browse,
compare, etc)
Friday, February 26, 2010
SmartDisplay: The Concept
Friday, February 26, 2010
• iPhone application
• CoreData for data management
• Replace networking with simulation
• Data 2D visualization
• Users interaction with data
SmartDisplay: Implementation
Friday, February 26, 2010
SmartDisplay: Demo
Friday, February 26, 2010
SmartDisplay: Demo
Friday, February 26, 2010
CurrentState
Case 2: Related works...
Wattson/Holmes
TED/TED-O-Meter
http://www.diykyoto.com/
http://www.thegreenergrass.org/2008/02/concept-current-state.html
http://code.google.com/p/tedometer/
Friday, February 26, 2010
• Sensing ecosystem
• Central point of data registration
• QR-codes for recognizing sensors
• Mobile application for monitoring
BSCWSense: The Concept
Friday, February 26, 2010
• iPhone application
• ZXing for QR codes recognition (http://code.google.com/p/zxing/)
• CoreData for data management
• Data 2D visualization(http://code.google.com/p/s7graphview/)
BSCWSense: Implementation
Friday, February 26, 2010
BSCW Sensor Objects
BSCW Shared Workspaces http://www.bscw.de/english/product.html
Friday, February 26, 2010
Testbed in FIT
Hydra http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/projects/mobiles-wissen/hydra_en.html
Friday, February 26, 2010
BSCWSense: Reading
Friday, February 26, 2010
BSCWSense: Monitoring
Friday, February 26, 2010
• Development tools
• Prototyping (Balsamiq, OmniGraffle with Graffletopia stencils)
• iPhone SDK, XCode, InterfaceBuilder
• Data management concerns
• XML, SQLite/ORMs, CoreData
• Performance issues
• Visualizations
• Custom drawing
• CorePlot
• Extending S7GraphView
• JavaScript
Conclusions
Friday, February 26, 2010
• Technologies and platforms
• Good opportunity to start a “holy war”
• Going native vs. using Phonegap-like frameworks
• Community/social features in Smart Metering Displays
• Data management alternatives
• iPad as a Smart Metering Display
Discussion / Further work
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thank you!
Oleksandr Lobunets, Fraunhofer [email protected]
UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications, UMIC Research Center, Aachen
February 26th 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010