Mobile Device as a Smart Metering Display Oleksandr Lobunets, Fraunhofer FIT oleksandr.lobunets@fit.fraunhofer.de UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications, UMIC Research Center, Aachen February 26th 2010 Friday, February 26, 2010
Dec 05, 2014
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
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Meters UI
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Interacting with meters
Images from:http://www.segodnya.ua/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5057334.stm
Locating Reading Registering
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Usage data analysis
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Takes time, slow feedback, manual work, errors, annoying, less control...
Reading process
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• 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.
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Mobile display fits perfectly...
Reading process
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• 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?
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Technology evaluation
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MeterRead
ZaehlerstandSmartMeter
MeterReadings
...there are dozens of others
Case 1: Related works...
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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)
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SmartDisplay: The Concept
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• iPhone application
• CoreData for data management
• Replace networking with simulation
• Data 2D visualization
• Users interaction with data
SmartDisplay: Implementation
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SmartDisplay: Demo
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SmartDisplay: Demo
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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/
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• Sensing ecosystem
• Central point of data registration
• QR-codes for recognizing sensors
• Mobile application for monitoring
BSCWSense: The Concept
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• 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
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BSCW Sensor Objects
BSCW Shared Workspaces http://www.bscw.de/english/product.html
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Testbed in FIT
Hydra http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/projects/mobiles-wissen/hydra_en.html
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BSCWSense: Reading
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BSCWSense: Monitoring
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• 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
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• 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
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Thank you!
Oleksandr Lobunets, Fraunhofer [email protected]
UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications, UMIC Research Center, Aachen
February 26th 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010