Stoplight App

New year, new semester and new project. Welcome back everyone and glad to have you back to ICS 414 Software Engineering weekly blog entry. For this semester, Prof. Johnson decided to continue on with last semester's sustainability project, Wattdepot, and use it a the key theme for this semester's projects. Prof. Johnson has given us 6 sustainability projects and let us decide which one we want to work on. The projects are Wattdepot Apps, Google Stoplight, HEEP website collaboration, Kukui Cup Design, Kukui Cup Prototype and Energy Meter. Another thing that is different is that we have to meet up with our professor every week which is different from our class time to discuss and present our weekly project development.

The Wattdepot apps are just a continuation of last semester's project and Google Stoplight is a stand alone application based on the Wattdepot stoplight page using Google visualization. The others are newly introduced projects that included collaboration with Hawaii Energy Efficiency Program (HEEP) to create a web application that will be included with their upcoming website and UH Electrical Engineering in creating a smart energy meter with the Energy Meter project. The last two are part of the Kukui Cup Competition that includes a project mock-up creation by the design team and the UH dorm integration by the prototype tech team.

For this project, I am part of the Google Stoplight. I picked this project because I wanted to try and do some of the extra components that was included in the Wattdepot apps, which is the use of Google visualization to help graph and chart hourly carbon output. The main difference is that we have to use Google visualization to incorporate the stoplight information. So far our group have only met yesterday and we talked about the things we have to do. We just delegated jobs such as the creation of project hosting site and we also talked about our experience with Google Gadget tutorials.