Develop of the Idea

After testing my idea, I consider that the idea should distilled clearly. I can not see that the people are checking the weather and receive energy information.

I want the app to have a task/challenge for behaviour changing, social recognition and social pressure and smart, that learn from people behaviours.

I would think and App that help people on their everyday household chores, plan their daily activities, track the energy consumption, share through social media, receive recognition for reduction the is energy usage, work with smart meter, power data and third party data such as weather and zoopla, learn from people behaviour to pull remainder and control energy usage.

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Plan your daily shores

Track your energy usage (comparing with same weathers conditions not same time last year)

Other people comments about tips

Rewards Receive weekly recognition

Achieve levels

Social sharing Energy tips filter by categories.

Others Area App review

Charity => change behaviours

Instead

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Simply pick an opportunity to support a cause through instead. Then, instead of buying something small, like a coffee, or a lunch, do something more cost effective like brewing your own coffee, or packing your lunch. Finally, donate the savings ($3 or $5) to a cause supported by an instead non-profit partner.

See? Easy. Rewarding. Life changing.

I like the simple layout

Show the behaviour that it need to be changed in b&w, and explain correct behaviour

Give the option for the new behaviour

More info

I'll do this => people selected what to do

Tell some friends => social interactions

Small change with a huge impact

Personal trainer => Plan, achieve goal

Fitocrazy

Fitocracy motivates you and helps you succeed at fitness and level up in real life. We make exercise fun! Track your workouts, earn points, unlock achievements, beat quests, and slay the laziness dragon. Join the best fitness community on the planet and become the person you were meant to be.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fitocracy-daily-workout-fitness/id509253726?mt=8

Track daily rutine

Imitate the jargon in the Gym

Different routines

Encourage easy tips for starter

Fitocrazy

This app mimic the language use it in Gyms in term on how the coach would talk with people. It's friendly and you can feel with their text that is like a coach. Also they have the social aspect and rewards.

In terms on design, I like because it is simple. The typeface is strong with sharp corners. They use icons that I think that just with the text would do, the icon doesn't represent clearly what it means.

This App need information for the user in other to work out the program.

This frase "Look at you, to enable the people to upload a picture, it is friendly. The format use to feel information it is clear.

What are you into?.

Weighwatchers => Plan, change behaviours, goal

Use Find to look up the ProPoints values of over 35,000 foods, meals and recipes when you're looking for inspiration.

Access the fantastic Cheat Sheets on the app for an easy way to check the ProPoints values of pizza, pasta, salad and cocktails.

Browse success stories for inspiration

Tick off your Healthy Checks, access your Community profile and friends or use Meeting Finder to locate your nearest meeting.

Use the ProPoints Tracker to log your daily and weekly ProPoints allowance and any activityProPoints values you've earned too.

Track your weight in the Weight Tracker and watch your progress in the graph or table as you hit the milestones along your weight loss journey.

my tracking, weight, food, recipes and calculator.“

http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=51811

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/weight-watchers-mobile-uk/id406356219?mt=8

Simple and friendly

Hello, Maribel => good for start

ProPoints tracker => energy tracker

Routines

Cheat Sheets => already tips

Energy calculator => Add a tip

Find Tips =>

Be able to upload a tip and calculate the savings

Points is a easy way to understand energy usage

To be able to track your usage and how close people are from their limit

My fitness pal

Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter for iPhone. With the largest food database of any iPhone calorie counter (over 3,000,000 foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off! There is no better diet app – period.

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App function research

myfitnesspal

This App use a basic colour squeme. The language is friendly like between friends. I like that for my App. The boxes are square and the buttons rounded squared.

All these apps rely in information to process the program.

I found this help more useful as the user would have the the information right when he needed.

Others

Friend look up

History tracker

iHealth

http://www.ihealthlabs.com/ihealth_myvitals_app.htm

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihealth-myvitals/id566815525?mt=8

This app incorporate different sensor to track your health.

Storyboard

Storyboard V02

I will always test my ideas against the brief to test if I am still on track. They say that is important to summarise the Idea in the first 30 sec, and show how my idea is going to work. I really wants to carry on with the idea of sensors into the house, if this is rejected during the Critic I would put the user to track their activities as the normal fitness programs, however I would hope that because I will be using third party data and device data to gather information for the program this would made my App unique.

Storyboard V03

I checked text

Storyboard V04

I review some aspects with potential users about the visualisation and the overall work of the App, and some aspects to look at:

I change Token for Points, like the video games.
To give the user the choice between point or money. There are some research that show that people where not driven to change their energy behaviour even though they show them how much money they can safe. Points is a ease way to understand energy usage and the most used app where instead of using "you are going to lost 5km"
Include in the tracking page comparison with neighbours. Opower and Accurate research showed that people change the view towards energy when they are compared with their neighbours.
Include in the Tracking page different time vies such as by day, by week, by month and by year.
Show the options opt Top league friends.

Description of the process

People find difficult to control their energy usage, they don't know where to start?

Kiot (Kilowatt Internet Of Things) is a sensor that works with an App.

Kiot is an energy coach to help people reduce energy by providing challenges according to individual needs and also monitoring their energy usage.

People need to create an account using their email or Facebook.

When the user indicate that is at home, Kiot uses the Location from the device to download data from Maps to link Location with a Postcode. Kiot requests house number to bring more data about the house from Land registry and Zoopla such as layout, floor plans, rooms, tenure, Zoopla and Land registry. The user would just need to check the information and edit if it is necessary.

User shows Kiot their house. Kiot can recognise shower, basic, sink, lights, heating, appliances, location of windows and doors. Kiot uses third party data from npower and energy saving trust, and device affordances (Gyrocompass, Accelerometer, Proximity, Camera) to gather information about your appliances (Make, Energy rating, Energy usage). User can upload information when is not available.

Kiot (App plus sensor) learn from members of the household daily routines.

Kiot take realtime information from smart meter and weather conditions.

With all this information, Kiot knows about how user consume energy.

Kiot establish a daily target (energy allowance) based on points or money, that is compared against similar houses.

This view can be customise by day, by week, by month or by year, an also people can see more in detail the energy usage by different routines or appliances.

The tracker include a warning system that will send you notification if you are close or over your energy usage. There are different levels green, yellow, orange and red, where red is that you reach your target.

Kiot offers personal challenges to reduce energy. This challenges will go by different levels from control the thermostat or change energy contract to install solar panel or update central heating. The user can see how many people recommend this challenge, and the user can market as do it straight away or save for later.

Kiot checks real time energy usage. If the user took the Challenges this should be reflected in their energy usage. Kiot keep on learning form all the data collected.

User receive weekly social media recognition when they keep or reduce energy usage. If they reach orange warning receive bronze, yellow is silver and green is gold.