← Energy Detective

• Weekly contribution*
  2019-02-20  • 大威
  *Make sure to include details: What exactly have you been working on? How much time? What were the self-set deadlines? Did you meet the deadlines? If not? why? *Things need to be done *starting a Net Impact Chapter is simple. Requirements include: *Confirming a leadership team of at least two students and one Chapter Advisor *Ask all Chapter members (including Advisor) to register online
• Draft of final report
  2019-02-16  • 大威
  *Step1: Planning 1. How did you come up with the idea of your social venture? The idea of the Energy Detective (ED) project is come up from the original Campus Energy Saving (CES) project at my home university. The main difference is the CES project focus on developing a standard Decision Supporting Assessment (DSA) to assist the campus by establishing a comprehensive energy-saving plan. Moreover, the ED project is a methodology for the public to detect and discover solutions for energy waste in their daily lives. In short, two projects all provide an energy saving methodology; the difference is that CES is from the management perspective for the campus scale, and ED is from the user perspective for the selected space. *Why am I so interested in the "energy-saving" topic? As a graduate student who majors in climate change and sustainable development at National Taiwan University. My studies go across different fields such as earth science, social science, engineering, and computer science, which all serve to one goal: to find a balance between human being and the mother nature. As a result, I started the CES project in NTU Student Association Department of Sustainability in 2017. Also, my research focuses on how sustainable architecture can mitigate and adapt to climate change. To achieve this goal, I use different approaches to do energy saving analysis, as well as practicing my engineering knowledge and coding skills in NTU campus.
• Scale up & sustainability
  2019-01-12  • 大威
  *Scale up - Ansoff Matrix * *For the Energy Detective project, I revised the Ansoff matrix, to change the "products" to "functions" of ED's website, and the "markets" to "users/page viewers." Users Penetration *
• Personas
  2019-01-07  • 大威
  *Key Performance Indicators 1. Percentage of guideline process: For target user (like Mrs.D) can go through the whole evaluation process (100%). And other secondary users at least finished the phase 2 (33%). 2. Time on website page more than 5 minutes: According to Medium calcuate my demo website reading speed is about 5 minutes which means users have read the whole article. 3. Click through rate of hyperlinks more than 3 times: During the guideline process, there will insert 4 main button of hyperlink for appliances table (phase2), personas, clock diagram/ touch points (phase3), and line chart of historical data. 4. Page views of website: After website launched, through SEO makes PVs more than 100,000
• Theory of Change
  2019-01-02  • 大威
  Activities *Find some testimonials in Israel to go through the whole ED process. *Plan a workshop for those target audiences (Mrs.D) to help them to do the tasks in step by step. *Finish the demo website and sent it to DesignBetter.Co c Outputs
• Gamification ideas
  2019-01-01  • 大威
  Energy Detective (ED) project aims to design a process to engage people in evaluating energy usage in their daily lives and providing tailored-solution options, making energy-saving decisions easier. Some of the gamification elements might be added to the ED process: 1. Make it as a challenge which can quickly start a conversation. 2. Create a leaderboard which testimonials can share to compete. 3. Create a Q&A game (like kahoot!) which with energy knowledge questions that divide the user to the different target process.
• 1 Page Proposal
  2019-01-01  • 大威
  *Wei-jing HO, 2018/11/15 *1. Problem *Do you know that electricity waste is a phenomenon in our daily lives? The main problem is we don't even realize that ”how the energy might be wasted?” *For the general public without any knowledge of electricity, they usually take ”ethical” ways to save energy, like minimizing the use of air conditioning in extreme temperature days. *For the others might concern about energy efficiency, they prefer "renewal" ways, like changing the inefficient equipment. But how do we tell which is better?
• Campus energy-saving project
  2019-01-01  • 大威
  *Wei-Jung HO, 2018/11/8 *1. Problem *There is no appropriate method to evaluate/analyze energy consumption on campus. Do you know in the electricity bill in Taiwan’s universities is up to 460 million US dollars every year? Now, imagine that you are suffering in a blackout, what might happen? You are half way of your thesis, and the computer suddenly shut down, you realize (that) "your life is hopeless". Or your experimental samples will no longer keep frozen, but you have to rely on them to graduate. Also, the WiFi adapters and water dispensers are losing their function. That's a disaster, but that did happen (in 2015)! Therefore, I am eager to know "how to save energy on campus to stabilize our power system." In the first, I came to administrators and found that there is no appropriate method to evaluate/analyze energy consumption. Another problem is with different viewpoints of energy-saving, one is concerned about the "ethics（道德派）", like minimizing the use of electricity. Many of you might think, I have paid the tuition fee to use campus service. And we also shouldn't give up the right for our "human comfort-needs", we need air conditioning in summer days. The other (one) is concerned about "renewal（設備派）", like change the inefficient equipment. But how do we tell which one is better?
• Key Performance Indicators
  2018-12-31  • 大威
  *Update (specify and redefine) your three main key performance indicators of your project on the Discussion Board. How can your project's success be measured? Put it in numbers! 1. Percentage of the guideline process: For the target user (like Mrs.D) can go through the whole evaluation process (100%). And other secondary users at least finished phase 2 (33%). 2. Time on website page more than 5 minutes: According to the data of Medium Corporation, I calculate my demo website with adult reading speed on average is about 5 minutes which means users have read almost the whole article.
• Incentive Structures
  2018-12-28  • 大威
  *For Investors/ Sponsors: *The ED methodology can be seen as a CSR credential or employee training for the company/ organization. Not only to help the company /organization to reduce the carbon footprints in a smart way but also to empower the staffs with energy education. *For Potential users: *The main target audience of ED project is the people with the passion for saving energy but without energy knowledge. And they will be the pioneer user of the project by go through the whole project and save the energy/ money/ world! *ED project also can be a guideline for teachers use in all level education system, like the "design thinking" tools.