Slides from a workshop presented by Peter Rukavina on February 27, 2015 at the University of Prince Edward Island, Robertson Library and sponsored by ARMA Prince Edward Island Chapter.
by Peter Rukavina on February 27, 2015 at the University of Prince Edward Island, Robertson Library and sponsored by ARMA Prince Edward Island Chapter These slides are released under a Creative Commons license. You are encouraged to distribute them as far and as wide as possible under the terms of the license.
Demone for the coordination. • Melissa Belvadi, Don Moses, Alkarim Bhalesha and Jerrad Gilbert at Robertson Library for digital logistics here in the lab.
partnership is driving innovation in the delivery of electricity load and generation data to Islanders The Apocalyptic Lightbulb Conspiracy by Daniel Hoherd is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Maritime Electric to have consumption drop?” Jim Lea, Maritime Electric CEO, replies… March 27, 2003, Delta Prince Edward Clip from audio recording Maritime Electric Public Information Session by Peter Rukavina, March 27, 2003.
how much electricity PEI is using, where it comes from, and how much of it is renewable The Apocalyptic Lightbulb Conspiracy by Daniel Hoherd is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
a gut feeling for the load, the generation, and the generation mix The Apocalyptic Lightbulb Conspiracy by Daniel Hoherd is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
the web • The “markup” adds meaning to text, like “make this a big title”: <h1>Who left the lights on?</h1> • On any page on the web, you can “View Source” to see the HTML of the page
by almost all web browsers • Allows “interactive stuff” to happen in the browser • Simple and easy to learn, like: var temp_c = 0; var temp_f = temp_c * 1.8 + 32;
passing data around the web. • The “fat-free alternative to XML” • Very easily used by JavaScript because it’s a subset of the way objects are represented in JavaScript.
be (only) human- readable • Open data on the web works best when… • it’s simply attached to a URL • it’s in an easily-manipulated format • it’s easy to understand
Operator • Organizations that manage the electricity network • Like the “switchboards” for the electricity network, which has been called “most complex machine ever devised by man.” • For PEI the network is managed by the NBSO: the New Brunswick System Operator
“open enough” • There’s not enough structure to the data, especially if I want to use it with other tools (to archive it, to graph it, etc.) • Solution: convert the HTML into JSON.
am very grateful that you have found a way to record the load and wind power generated in PEI. Do you by any chance have a spread sheet of these values? I am looking at using storage to balance wind fluctuations and was hoping to try and using the real load and wind data to accomplish that.”
web- connected, touch-screen computer • Uses the JSON version of the PEI load and generation data • Provides simple feedback: red - bad time to use energy (no wind, fossil) yellow - average time to use energy green - good time to use energy (high wind)
in real time? • Can we display this usage information to people in the house? • Can we use social pressures and a feeling of competition to motivate a decrease in consumption?
containing a radio receiver capable of reading and decoding electricity and water meter readings. • The readings can be processed by almost any computer, including a Raspberry Pi.
in real time? • Can we display this usage information to people in the house? • Can we use social pressures and a feeling of competition to motivate a decrease in consumption? and water! ^
with water and electricity meters and wireless Internet. • Households okay with sharing their consumption data with others in the test group and with the public.
in real time? • Can we display this usage information to people in the house? • Can we use social pressures and a feeling of competition to motivate a decrease in consumption?
of wiring together devices and data. • No programming required. • Runs locally on your computer, and is accessed using a web browser on your computer. • The Social Consumption Project Raspberry Pi computers use it to read and upload electricity and water meter data to the web.
the load, the generation, and the generation mix I want everyone to have a gut feeling for whether it’s a good time to use electricity or not I want to have a gut feeling for my own load ✔ ✔ ✔
will use your open data for (maybe they will make music from electricity). • Reduce as many barriers as possible to easy, painless access to data: find the right format(s) and put the data right on the web, with a URL. • “Eat your own dogfood” – develop systems that consume you own open data.
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