Idonix provides data visualisation for the E-Day "Leave It Off!" web site, displaying real-time electricity demand data from the National Grid.
With a back-office .Net application processing data from the National Grid's operations, feeding it to the web server-farm as lightweight JSON data files, and eyecatching animated displays on the web pages themselves, Idonix helps bring to life the real energy savings possible with a concerted campaign to simply switch off those unused lights and appliances. And, before you ask, at Idonix we always switch off equipment that's not in use, and our electricity comes from renewable sources, courtesy of Good Energy.
We have a rotating dial, that shows minute-by-minute the current national consumption in gigawatts, and savings against 'business-as-normal'. The dial's scale spins, and the two needles rotate to show the current value.
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A dial with 2 needles, one showing today's current electricity usage in Gigawatts minute by minute, and another the 'business as usual' figure, along with the percentage current savings.
(You'll need Javascript enabled to see the meters.)
(Many thanks to the folks at google and elsewhere responsible for the excellent excanvas javascript library that allows us to do graphic things with a 'Canvas' in Internet Explorer the same as we do in Firefox, Safari etc.)
We also have the traditional electricity meters, ticking away showing the total consumption through the day, and again compared to 'business-as-normal'. The numbers on the meter rotate just like on the meter in your house (well, may be a little faster).
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Two meters, one showing today's electricity consumption and another the 'business as usual' figure, along with the percentage savings made over the day.
(You'll need Javascript enabled to see the meters)
And where would we be at the end if we didn't have a nice graph to sum it all up...
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A line graph with 2 lines, one showing today's current electricity usage in Gigawatt Hours, and another the 'business as usual' figure, along with the percentage savings so far.
Note that these graphics are displaying simulated data, rather than real-time data from the National Grid.