EnergyMate -- Smart Power Strip

Soldering
Structure

Inspiration

Our current mission is to increase awareness about the financial aspects related to using electronic devices, giving people the knowledge and resources to not only save electricity but also protect their finances.

What it does EnergyMate do?

It monitors power draw and records to a database. WebApp displays power draw data to the end user. Basically, you can monitor how much money you've spent this on electricity bill and help you to reduce it, for instance, this month you've used Heater for 20 hours, it costed $15. For the next month, if you use it 10 hours, you could save up to $8.

How we built it?

Project includes simulations in Proteus, Arduino code for ESP32, Git for version control, Postman for API testing, and DigitalOcean for reliable cloud deployment.

Challenges

We ran into issues with SQLite, our front-end charge was drawn out due to unforeseen circumstances.

Accomplishments

We're proud of being able to overcome our roadblocks and run software on cloud.

What we learned

To deploy the project to DigitalOcean for cloud-based data driven IoT pipeline solutions. We learned to setup up a python virtual environment using SSH protocol into the cloud.

What's next for EnergyMate.

In process, our aim is to be a part of the solution that helps safeguard the Earth's invaluable resources, promoting sustainability and ensuring a healthy environment for generations to come.

Built With

Submitted to

De Anza Hacks 2023
- Winner 1st Place
- Winner Best Environmental Hack

Created by

In the EnergyMate project, a smart electricity calculator, I led IoT hardware development—designing circuits, coding firmware, and managing a REST API. Our goal was to educate people on electricity usage's financial aspects, encouraging conservation and financial savings.
We overcame significant challenges, including technical issues with MySQL and delayed front-end development, by switching to an open-source MATLAB database. My role encompassed full-stack development, allowing me to enhance my skills in hardware and software integration.
Winning first prize at the De Anza College Hackathon was a proud moment, reflecting our teamwork and solution to a societal problem. The project was more than technical skill-building; it was about creating a real-world product with potential societal impact, marking a significant personal and professional growth journey for me.

Enkhbold Ganbold
Trying to build useful stuff
I worked on the back-end, using SQLite and flask-sqlalchemy, we had really high hopes that this would work especially how well our program worked locally. However, when we tried putting it on a cloud server, it wouldn't implement properly so it had to be scrapped and recreate the back-end from scratch using ThingSpeak . But in the end we won 1st place and im happy to have joined this group and to have this be my first hackathon.

Madhav Shukla
Connor Petri