Energy Consumption-threshold monitoring system : Web User Interface

Abstract

There is a general need for as small energy consumption as possible and for a good overview of the consumed energies. This can be achieved by careful and continuous monitoring of deviations in the energy consumption and evaluating the results in the real time. Energiakolmio has a sophisticated energy reporting system that can be improved with such a service.

The service fires so called alarms – warnings about consumption threshold overruns. The user interface of this service is a web solution. The objective of this thesis is to describe, design, implement, and evaluate this web solution.

The specification contains information about types of alarms, messages that are sent to the users,functions that the system performs and a proposal of the user interface. The web solution is implemented in Microsoft .NET platform, using the Model-View-Presenter software development pattern and Telerik RadControls. Web development related issues are discussed and the prototype is presented. After the implementation and testing phases it is necessary to extract the experience from the project and enclose it with an evaluation. Regarding to the product owner and team management the project ended up very well. The design of the system and used components were suitable for this solution and the company’s knowledge and software bases were enhanced with new elements.