Monday, October 26, 2009

Smart Grid: WattDepotCLI Elua Branch

Today is the start of a new project and it is getting me excited. My partner Kevin Chiogioji and I are creating a CLI (command line interface) client to interact with data from the Oahu, Hawaii smart grid. This will enable us to monitor energy usage and other data related to the wattdepot project.

"WattDepot is a RESTful web service that collects electricity data (such as current power utilization or cumulative power utilization) from meters and stores it in a database. The data can then be retrieved by other tools for visualization and analysis."

Once the command line is done we will be creating a web application to allow the users to monitor information about their consumption of energy in order to create awareness of how much energy is being consumed.

I found a small bug in jar.build.xml that incorrectly specified the output zip to be wattdepot-clientlib.jar where it should have been wattdepot-lib-client.jar. We also modified the dist.build.xml file as to build unique distributions in zip format to distinguish our branch from the others.

Our branch repository is located here:
WattDepot: Elua Branch.
Our distribution (although only now a bootstrap) is located here:
WattDepot: Elua Branch Distribution Download.

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