INA

INA shows the difference between your current and average usage by changing the color of the tiles. Each tile represents a different room in the house. When the user wants to focus on a certain room, the module can be placed on a tile to see an overview of their usage the past 12 hours in that room. The product makes energy easier to understand for people by visualizing energy in an understandable manner. By creating awareness of people’s energy usage in their houses they are stimulated to consume less energy.

It is not always stable and a bit spacious. It would be better if we could implement the technology in smaller compartments. There should also be an option to choose your own colour gradient, as blue and green are not always wished to be displayed in houses, or not necessarily associated with high and low/good and bad.

We want to implement the measuring technology in houses and make the platform modular, so you can map the platform yourself. We should also use more advanced technology that takes less space. For the colour gradient, we can easily adapt the code, because we are using RGB LEDs. The data of energy usage can be stored and used for improvement. For companies who are innovating in the field of sustainability, this information can be used to enhance more efficient energy usage in future houses. It could be interesting to scale it up to the size of skyscrapers and officie buildings, to compare different areas within the building and make them more sustainable.