An ecosystem of products that help people reduce their environmental impact through energy-usage feedback.
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Reducing the environmental impact of energy-usage is vital in the creation of a sustainable future, but energy-usage continues to be a tough hurdle to overcome for people. Most people want to reduce their impact, but because there is no direct feedback for our actions, we don’t see the true impact of our simple habits in real-time, or over extended periods of time.
The Probe App & Monitor System is an ecosystem of three energy usage monitors that are placed around a house in the rooms of highest consumption, and an app to manage the system and provide more detailed information to advanced users.
The Monitors provide intuitive feedback to the occupants by glowing warmer when exceeding their usage goal and cooler when returning below the usage goal. They also show graphics that represent the daily environmental impact (one cloud = one pound of CO2 emitted) and daily costs (one coin = 25¢ spent) from their energy usage. The Monitor’s color provides instantaneous feedback, the Monitors’s graphics provide feedback for daily usage, and the App’s interface provides both color and graphics for feedback across all periods of time.
Sketch, POP, Flinto, Omnigraffle, Adobe XD, Google Docs, Chrome Canvas, Premiere Pro
4 weeks
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