Currently (2021) PhiSaver has one billlion data points. It’s a bit hard to display in a single user dashboard. An efficient user dashboard should answer questions. This page charts my progress to the mythical perfect energy monitoring dashboard.
Typical user
- 30 – 60 years old
- Not technical. Maybe knows about some units (W, kW).
- Aware of their usage (e.g it’s higher in summer, it’s about $100/qtr)
Questions I hear:
- How much energy do I use?
- Where is my energy going?
- Is my bill right?
- Is my solar working?
… and how to answer them
- How much energy do I use?
- Number: 10 kWh/day (average)
- Text: 10% less this month than normal
- Visual: Graph of monthly consumption
- Where is my energy going?
- Visual: Pie chart
- Is my bill right?
- Number: estimated bill ($/qtr)
- Text: you exported X kWh/qtr ($100) and imported Y kWh/qtr ($200) and has a assumed service rates of $1/day
- Is my solar working? What’s my consumption?
- Number: 15 kWh/day
- Visual: line graph of production and consumption
- Visual: compare import/export/production/consumption in columns