25 June 2012

ElectricFriends and FigureEnergy are analyzed in terms of database design, code structure and technology.

- FigureEnergy: http://hci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/FigureEnergy
- ElectricFriends: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8429316/ElectricFriends.pdf

The articles below are examined. The first article is useful to understand the peak demand problem and solution of the problem through micro-storages. Second one is about how predicting consumer's activities can help them to reduce their energy consumption.

- http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268360/

- http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/339215/

The installations of python, django, pip and virtualenv are completed. I am using WampServer for MySql. MySql is useful for your initial projects to figure out how django works. FigureEnergy uses Sqlite. Pip is useful to get required libraries for FigureEnergy.

- http://www.wampserver.com/en/

- http://slacy.com/blog/2011/06/django-postgresql-virtualenv-development-setup-for-windows-7/

- http://blog.troygrosfield.com/2010/12/18/installing-easy_install-and-pip-for-python/

- http://www.sqlite.org/docs.html