14 - 19 OCTOBER, 2012. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA

Practical Web Based Visualization for Comparative Energy Usage Analysis

Contributors: 
Christopher Maness, Chad Steed, Olufemi Omitaomu
Description
The Citizen Engagement for Energy Efficient Communities project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to help energy consumers visualize, better understand, and become more aware of their energy consumption in order to lower their consumption and reduce their carbon footprint. The easiest way for the greatest number of users to be able to access their consumption data is via an easy to use, easily accessible web-based application. Through a combination of HTML5, PHP, MYSQL, JSON, and Javascript we were able to create such an application and create compelling visualizations that combines user's energy consumption data, climate data, and the usage of a user's peers to help consumers better understand their own energy usage.