Senior Design Spring 2015

Lindsay Sullivan

Emily Simonelli

Taniya Singh

United Illuminating in Orange, CT

3/12/2015

2/12/2014 Copyright © 2014 – Advanced Power Electronics & Electric Drives Lab (APEDL)

Design Review

• Had design review on Monday – got positive feedback along with some good ideas to implement on demo day

• Consider ways to include budgeting (i.e. if someone has only $10,000 what is the best way to use energy efficient measures)

• May want to do a poster board dedicated to this• Three different budgets along with corresponding measures, how they best effect

efficiency, how much money they cost and how much money they save

Split Programs & Flow Charts

• Split Programs are finished and ready to be sent to UI

• Began researching the best ways to implement the flow charts on the dashboard for demo day

• Show/Hide Image seems to be the best way to go• All pictures will be imbedded in and set to hide, once selecting a button it will re-hide

any showing images (in case a button was pressed prior) and then un-hide the image linked to that button

Comments added

Comments have been added for the “Filter Sheets” and “Export data” buttons

User Guide updated

Added information on accessing the code onto the

User Guide.

Interactive House

• First “draft” in process

• Need to choose our 25-30 selectable areas

• Information about each area needs to be gathered and summarized

Refrigerator (frost-free), Energy Star Refrigerator (frost-free) 15 cu. Ft. (1996 unit) 14 cu. Ft.

ESTIMATED USAGE 150 kW/mo 57 kW/mo ESTIMATED COSTS $16.50/mo $6.27/moGROSS ANNUAL SAVED 67.9 kWh 327.7 kWh

Stuff about heater Stuff about DryerStuff about Washer

Stuff About Insulation

Blower Door Test

Future Goals

• Make sure UI answers the email about the split programs’ issues.

• Go through flowcharts and make sure they all have a legend.

• Implement flowcharts into master excel

• Finish User guide

• Complete research for virtual house