In the debate about the use of energy there are often presented studies showing that economic development (or growth, or increased welfare) demands an increasing use of energy. This would lead to two things. If less energy is used it would lead to less wealth and less jobs (or a stagnation of the economy). Economic [...]

Already in the first week of this project we started to search for a product name. Today, four weeks later and hundred of notes with name suggestions, we still haven’t decided…
A name symbolizes a personality in some way or another. Is this product fun and humoristic, with a twist like Watts up?, Kill a Watt [...]

The goal of this project is to help people reduce their energy consumption. Since we want people to reduce their energy usage, this also includes us and the gadget we want to produce.
As argued before the gadget should act as a reminder and make us aware about our actions. To do that the gadget needs [...]

Lower your energy consumption is like losing weight – knowledge takes you far, but you need reminders to change long time behaviour.
A Power meter gives you possibility to know and measure your energy consumption. Like Lord Kelvin said “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” (Used by Google PowerMeter)

The Swedish company Senea installed [...]

Apart from creating a useful and fun product, one of the goals of this project is to explore the problems and possibilities of designing an ecosystem of things both physical and digital that all talk to each other. On the digital side, one of the possibilities of reaching a lot of users as well as [...]

We invited people from inUse in Malmö to hear their thoughts about the best direction for the project. They marked our gadget and web services ideas. A lot of great notes were made, like were to place the gadget in the home and preferences for social the web interaction. They also gave us nice company for lunch!

Jon, Darja [...]

Research begins in the studio. Gustav and Emil looking into the world of power meters and energy consumption.

Elin organize the output.

On June 24th, we started EcoElectricity. A project aimed at producing a social real-time electricity meter that will help people decrease their electricity consumtion. This blog will share design ideas, issues we come along in our design process, as well asinteresting data and information we find online in our process towards a great product.