EFFICITY
HackWestern 5
Efficity allows energy providers analyze trends and everyday consumers to track their power usage easily. Our team decided that it's time a group of students attempt to create exposure and awareness towards energy in a fun and easy way. With a simple adjustable potentiometer circuit to simulate power consumption, an arduino for reading inputs, a DragonBoard 410c as the main brain, and of course only 2 hours of sleep for the hackathon, we were successful in winning two prize categories with 600 competing students!
Efficity
We make tracking power usage easy and fun to look at with real time energy recording and graphing on the web!
Full Setup
Here we have our Dragonboard 410C running on the right, while connected to its own HDMI screen. The Arduino, which is hidden in this picture, reads inputs from the breadboard circuitry then communicates them to the Dragonboard. The Dragonboard then in turn relays the information to the web where we are able to graph the results in real time!
Circuitry
A close up look at our circuitry!
Presentation Time
After a solid design of our project, we were faced with the challenge of pitching our idea to a group of judges. Through concise language and user friendly tones, we focused on conveying Efficity's simplicity, ease of use, impact on society, and its extra potential processing power.
Best Sustainability Hack!
Through hardwork and no sleep, we were successful in winning Fiix Software's Best Sustainbility Hack!
Best IOT Hack!
We were also able to score Major League Hacking's Best IOT Hack! Out of 600 students or 97 submitting projects, we were the only team to win two prizes!
