A one-stop platform to monitor your electricity consumption! Rohan Khadilkar
A one-stop platform to monitor your electricity consumption!
Rohan Khadilkar
What is ElectriCheck?ElectriCheck is a tool which helps monitor your electricity performance. Its essentially a custom application built on top of Altizon’s Datonis platform.
Who can use ElectriCheck?ElectriCheck can be used by anyone who feels the need to understand their ever increasing electricity bill. A better analysis leads to lower consumption and in turn, reduced expenditure.
Do I need ElectriCheck?Are you into the hospitality business?If yes, then you definitely do!
The product is built keeping in mind the huge electricity costs incurred by the hospitality industry, which might range from small cafes and restaurants to luxury five star hotels.
“That in figures adds up to Rs 90 lakh annual electricity bill for an average five star hotel. This is an overwhelming figure but not as overwhelming as the macro statistics. According to latest tariff available, around Rs 2200 crore is spent by hotels annually on electricity.” – India Hospitality Review
How is ElectriCheck beneficial for my business? There are 2 ways to generate revenue – 1. Increase your profits2. Reduce your expenditure
The second way is a lot easier!ElectriCheck helps you understand where you are spending that
little bit extra!
“For most hotels in India, heating, lighting and power (HLP) costs have doubled over the last two years from about 7-8% to 14-15% of their revenues today, which is now starting to pinch them," said Akshay Kulkarni, executive director at Cushman & Wakefield India. HLP costs are the second highest behind employee costs, which too have grown in the past few years. – Economic Times
Application OverviewLanding Page
• Click on “Tell Me More..” to proceed to the Home Page
Home Page
• Use your Datonis license credentials to log in.• If you are new user, click on “Sign Up Now!” to create your account.
Dashboard
• The sidebar on the left provides various options• “Sensors” and “Groups” are the main components in ElectriCheck and Datonis• You can also compare 2 sensors side-by-side in “Compare and Contrast”
Sensors
• List of all available sensors• Click on any one sensor name to view its details• You can create, delete or edit details of any sensor on this page.
Create Sensor
• Create new sensor
Single Sensor View - 1
• View data for different time periods, ranging from 24 hours to 1 year
Single Sensor View - 2
• View data for different metrics
Single Sensor View - 3
• A percentage comparison to better understand metric details
Groups
• Click on Group Name to view its sensors• Create, delete or edit groups on this page
Compare and Contrast
• Facility to compare 2 sensors side by side
Prerequisites• Datonis account
• Stable internet connection
• Web browser (preferably Google Chrome)
• Storage space on machine for Eclipse (>300 MB)
Technologies Used• Java was used for data ingestion and retrieval
• Apache Tomcat as the local server
• Interactive UI was built on the Bootstrap framework (HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, jQuery)
• Visualizations were built using the Highcharts JS library
• Datonis’ API structure