Energy Projects

Please see Loop.pH project BuriedLight

7000 oaks and counting...

7000 oaks and counting awarded $25,000 commission from the State of Illinois. 7000 oaks and counting is a installation that creatively images real time electricity consumption. The piece will be installed in the new NCSA building in Urbana, IL in 2006.

• http://www.tiffanyholmes.com/

Oberlin College, The Dorm Energy Competition

'In April of 2004, students in all of Oberlin's dorms, program houses, and housing co-ops participated in a competition to reduce electricity use. Vladi installed wireless sensors in two dorms (Fairchild and Harkness) that measure electricity use for different parts of each building. As a result, residents of Fairchild and Harkness were able to access real-time consumption data by floor during the competition. This data was available both on the web and on computer displays in the lounges of their dorms.'

The custom wireless setup (including electronics boards, solar panel, and battery) used to relay resource consumption data to a central server.

• http://www.oberlin.edu/dormenergy

THE DUMB ENERGY CONSUMPTION METER

This dumb electricity meter is 'dumb' in that it doesn’t talk, and dumb insofar as the intention is for you (aka ‘user’) to be smarter about your energy consumption than it. However it is smart in that it embeds microprocessor and measures the electricity consumption accurately in realtime, stores the history of energy consumption and coordinates with your appliances to run off peak and do the few smart things that are used to justify smart products generally. However this design is focused on its relationship to you – rather than the appliances. 

• http://cat.nyu.edu/natalie/DumbMeter2.html

Interactive Institute, Ivrea, Italy,

displaying energy consumption

• http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/j.tester/electricity/

'Static!

'Static! investigates interaction design as a means of increasing our awareness of how energy is used and for stimulating changes in energy behaviour.'

Interactive Institute, Sweden

• http://www.tii.se/static/

-- Openloop. Rachel Wingfield - 22 Sep 2005
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