Slides explaining the current R&D project for MCQN Ltd: a family of autonomous, power-monitoring, controllable sockets.

1. The Mazzini Project
Take control of your electricity bill
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Climate change
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Rising energy consumption

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We love our gadget habit

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Energy costs are rising

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Need to address demand as well as supply

7. How much electricity are you wasting?
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I don’t know. Do you?

8. You could measure overall consumption
People are already doing this…
 DIY Kyoto’s Wattson
 The Owl
 Efergy
 Eco-eye
…but it’s very coarse-grained
See http://www.electricity-monitor.com/features-comparison-chart-i-26.html
for a comparison
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9. Or measure devices one-by-one
Using something like…
 Kill-A-Watt
 Enerjar http://enerjar.net
But…
 Results are displayed locally
 Only measures cumulative energy
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10. What if your electricity bill was
itemised like your phone bill?
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See which appliances used the most power

11. What if your electricity bill was
itemised like your phone bill?
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Spot patterns in usage over time

12. Taking control
Measuring your power usage would
let you target your efforts. But…
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13. Taking control
…could it do more?
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14. Taking control
What if devices were automatically
turned off overnight, or when you
were at work?
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15. Taking control
What if you could easily turn off all
non-essential devices when you went
to bed, or left the house?
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16. Taking control
What if ancillary devices (like a
printer) automatically turned
themselves on and off whenever the
master device was switched on or off?
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17. The Mazzini Project aims to build
such a system
A family of autonomous, power-
monitoring, controllable sockets
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18. The Mazzini Project aims to build
such a system
 Simple plug-in-and-go installation
 Monitors power usage and reports
regularly via wireless to a computer
or “master” unit
 Attached appliance can be turned on
or off remotely via wireless, or…
 …based on decisions from in-built
“behaviour” program
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19. Scalable
 Useful from the first one you install
 Add additional units as quickly as you
want
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20. Open Standards
 Will use existing open standards for
data where possible
 Will publish the specification for any
new data formats or communication
protocols defined
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21. Open Source
Desire is to release both the hardware
and software as open source to
encourage new applications and
developments from users
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22. Extensible. Reconfigurable.
 Software can be upgraded or
reconfigured in the field – it will be
easy to download new behaviours
 Investigating the possibility of non-
techie user hardware extensibility
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23. Tell me more!
 Still in development, but if you’re
interested then please get in touch –
adrianm@mcqn.com
 Check for project updates at
http://www.mcqn.com/research
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24. Photo Credits
 Power substation:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/866669
 Switches and dials:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/albedo/
97915333/
 Wattson:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksim
pkins/2120466739/
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