Getting data

Problem:  How are users of my application going to get their energy usage data onto the application?  Users won't want to enter all their data all the time.  It would be time consuming and confusing to figure out.  They need an easy, effortless way of recording their data.


Solution:  For my application I need to be able to record all the individual information of how your energy usage is split up into water heating, space heating, cooking, refridgeration, lighting and other.  At the present time there isn't any technology that can do this.  Therefore I'm looking to the future, where your household power meters will have usb and memory card slots.  You can leave the cards in the meter or plug them in when you want to collect the data.  There will be a little light next to the slots.  When this light is red it means the data is transferring to the usb/memory card and when it is green it means it's finished transferring.  This will then allow you to plug the usb or memory card straight into your computer and the data will automatically transfer to the EcoWorld application.