1. Energy Conservation System (ECS) Status Report #4 James Sturdivant Ionel Taflan Juan Tamez Susan Austin

2. Purpose of the ECS Reduce energy costs. Enable consumers to monitor the energy that is being used in a home or business.

3. Project Milestones Current Transformer Output Sept-12-07 Sept-12-07 Analog to Digital Sept-13-07 Sept-13-07 Microcontroller Programming and Data Collection Sept-14-07 Sept-14-07 User Interface Programming Sept-14-07 Sept-14-07

4. Completed Tasks Designed circuit for use with the current transformer and successfully scaled the output to the desired ranged Programmed microprocessor Sample ADC channels Sample ADC channels Output unit number, channel number, and data to serial communications interface Output unit number, channel number, and data to serial communications interface Tentatively decided to use Visual Basic for data collection and user interface Successfully collected data from the processor Successfully collected data from the processor Output data to a text file to be imported by the database Output data to a text file to be imported by the database Preliminary discussion of user interface Preliminary discussion of user interface

5. Current Progress

6. Upcoming Tasks Design the GUI Wireless Communication

7. Block Diagram 90% 95% 20% 5% 90% 20% 30%

8. Questions?