Monday 31 January 2011

Monday 31/01/2011

Firstly, this is an updated version of my Gantt chart after taking some comments on board:















Secondly, I think I have completely fixed the login and logout authentication. Different users can see their own data after logging in. It has been successfully tested. Before achieved this state, the system has driven me mad. For example, the "Home" link was broken and it just made everything totally messed.

Finally, I am ready to move on to the next task, which is to fix "Zero-gap" problem described before.

Monday 24 January 2011

Monday 24/01/2011

Having attended to a training class today, I decided to revise my 9 months report planning. Therefore I am able to work and try to meeting deadlines.
I do know what I am going to do in short term, however it is still very vague for a long term (from Task 3). It is very hard to imagine what exactly you are going to do after 3-4 months. So need to revise it concisely again after completing Task 2.

Here is the my updated Gantt chart, any suggestion is welcome and seriously be taken into account :)

Sunday 23 January 2011

Friday 21/01/2010

Having looked through and read the Figure Energy wiki, I have understood deeply about the system. The local database has been synchronized with the local machine now, I am able to create a event locally and play around with the system. 

I have fixed the root path link, done the login and logout page. Will need some more testing from different users before go further to the zero gap issue.

Thusday 20/01/2011

FigureEnergy Project Overview:
FigureEnergy is a project which helps to manage the electricity consumption of the consumers at home or at work.
FigureEnergy contains four main widgets: activity logger, planner, analyser and live energy activity, designed to help users to have a better understanding of energy consumption over various timescales and learn to efficiently manage the energy devices.
The activity logger is considered to be a core of the FigureEnergy platform. It relies on a Django/Python backend to pulls data from AlertMe server in the specific periods. In addition, the AlertMe system collects data from consumers’ hubs frequently (20 mins). Given this, the logger can display the energy consumption usages of the users and allows them to interact with the specific activities.
The current technical issue of the activity logger is the ‘zero gap’ , where there is no data existing from the current time to the previous collection point of AlertMe system. For example, the last collection time of AlertMe is at 3.00pm and the next collection time is at 3.50pm. We want to show the data from 2.00pm to 3.20pm, the system would show the zero gap between 3.00pm to 3.20pm as no data found on the AlertMe server yet.
Next current technical issue with Django/Python is the authentication page.  Each user would see its own data after logging into the system.

Monday 17 January 2011

Monday 17/01/2011

Still struggling in able to execute the Figure Energy Django in Eclipse. I have tried to install Ubuntu in VMWare but still have not found the working image files yet.

Plan for today is try to run the Figure Energy in Eclipse successfully (will try two ways: i) fixing libraries in Win 7, ii)  install everything again in Ubuntu VMWare) then finish the authentication task.

Fingers Crossed!

Update:
- Finish Ubuntu  installation using VMware WorkStation.

Friday 14 January 2011

Friday 14/01/2011

Targets to be achieved from now to next Thusday:
- Get more understand about Figure Energy stuff such as code and documentation.
- Complete the front-end login authentication of the Figure Energy Website, which can be found at: http://hci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/FigureEnergy

Plan for today:
- install Figure Energy svn to Eclipse.
- Play around with the code to understand the framework.