Visualization of Energy Consumption by UTP (VisCO2)

• Main Author: Siti Maisarah binti Sewandi, Siti Maisarah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2012
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/3856/1/Cover_Page_Dissertation_VisCO2.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/3856/

The author has done some research in order to support on Green IT and reduce Greenhouse effect via saving energy in an organization. This research has lead to the development of a website that could monitor and display the energy consumption in real time on any PC. This internet based visualization tool can help the senior management to review the whole general energy consumption of UTP and can take immediate action or decision that required energy saving. With the scope of the top management Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), hopefully this system can help and assist the management people to review energy consumption data in cumulative number. The objective of this project is mainly to do research on important of energy saving for an organization in order to contribute to greenization and prevent global warming. This objective is essential because it will help to develop a front-end system that could visualize the total number of UTP energy consumed. This will assist them to make decision making as well as save energy use in UTP. This system is using language PHP and HTML language by using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 that makes it easy to apply other programming strategies if needed. Next, this report will cover on methodology used to develop this system, which is Rapid Application Development methodology. These implementations, using methodology for compressing the analysis, design, build and test phases into a series of short, iterative development cycles. This has a number of distinct advantages over the traditional sequential development model. This system will focus on how to develop a helpful visualization system that could manage energy use in order to reduce the wasted energy consumption. Therefore, this project is called as Visualization of Energy Consumption by UTP (VisCO2) and relevant to be applied and used by UTP management in the future.