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.
Hi Henry, thanks for posting this. Please try to post as soon as you write, so it's easier to follow your writing by date.
ReplyDeleteLet me clarify the "zero-gap" issue. Let's say that AlertMe collects data every 20 minutes, for example at :00 :20 and :40 every hour. FigureEnergy collects data from AlertMe every hour, for example at :15 -- 15 minutes past the hour. What currently happens is that the time between 0 minutes and 15 minutes past each hour is filled with zeros.