Map View
Summary View
Single Building View

Nānā Ikehu

Nānā: To see, observe, or inspect Ikehu: Power, intensity, or energy

Welcome to Nānā Ikehu (Seeing Power) Meteor/React application to analyze power usage data, designed for the University of Hawaii at Manoa as part of the Hawaii Annual Code Challenge 2018

Demo: nana-ikehu.powerclique.com

What it does

This app visualizes energy usage throughout the University of Hawaii campus through the use of graphs and maps. Users are able to see the amount of energy used for each building by either clicking a building on the campus map, or by selecting a building through the drop down menu.

Configuration

Raw database files from Aurora BPA MS-SQL can be exported to CSV for import into this application. Three files must be placed in app/private/files before deploying.

export.csv - Raw data

SampleTsUtc is a timestamp, we do our best to parse any given format TagLogId matches a meter tag Mean is the main measurement used for display Min is used to calculate least demand Max is used to calculate peak demand

This file can be automatically generated using Aurora BPA MS-SQL with this sample query:

SELECT SampleTsUtc,LogHour.TagLogId ,Mean ,Min ,Max FROM [LogHour] JOIN LogHourExtension on LogHour.TagLogId = LogHourExtension.TagLogId AND LogHour.DayId = LogHourExtension.DayId AND LogHour.TimeId = LogHourExtension.TimeId JOIN tags.dbo.[TagIds] on LogHour.TagLogId = [TagIds].TagLogId where (TagName = 'kw') and Quality = 1;

This query will select needed header fields, reconcile DayId and TimeId values from the Extension table, then filter out high quality power data

BuildingList.csv - Building configuration

Column 1 supplies a unique tag or identifier for a building

Column 2 is a friendly name for a building

Columns 3,4,5 supply gross square footage, floor count, and room count for the building

TagIds.csv - Meter configuration

BuildingName is a column that matches a building Name

EntityName is a column that supplies a name for a meter

TagLogId is a column that matches the a meter's tag in the raw data

TagName contains that meter's unit of measurement

Deployment

If you are not familiar with Meteor it is recommended that you Galaxy or mup to deploy this application.

How we built it

The technologies used include:

Meteor.js
React.js
Semantic-UI
Victory (Graphs)

Challenges we ran into

During the HACC, we ran into many challenges. It was difficult finding a way to handle such a large amount of data for our app without slowing it down. We also ran into problems with scheduling and role assignments. Due to time constraints and our members busy schedules, we were not able to work on our app as much as we wanted to.

What we learned

This Hackathon demanded of us (in a good way) to build a project portfolio and most importantly, it gives an opportunity for us to learn new experiences with our team. We've also learned how to manage our time since the duration of the hackathon is in a very short term, this way actually encouraging us to work with the most productive and efficient method because of limited time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of and todo

As a team, we are proud of the fact that our application works the way we want to. We see value in providing tighter integration with other data sources and plan to add REST APIs. These APIs will allow other teams to get data from our application transparently as well as allow users to import data in real time using HTTP. We also would like to develop more historical tracking and metrics to further insights.