This week's work includes creating user stories for the Solar Decathlon for Team Hawaii. User Stories are one or more sentences that captures what the user wants to achieve. It is an informal and quick way of handling customers' requirements, features and functionality of a project that can be implemented. The user stories are written by the customers for a software project and are their main instrument to influence the development of the software.
Solar Decathlon is a competition that was created by U.S. Department of Energy that challenges 20 collegiate teams around the world. The teams were challenge to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency. For more information about the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon click here and for Team Hawaii click here.
User Stories
Based on the Team Hawaii's presentation and question and answer portion of it, below are the user stories that I thought occupants of the house may require on the management system:
1. As a home occupant, I want to be able to monitor both the energy that my house produces and the energy that the house consumes.
2. As a home occupant, I want the system to do calculation and some kind of notification if my house's produced energy will be not enough for the current house's consumption for the rest of day.
3. I want the system to give me the summary of the energy consumption of each electrical appliances/equipment, specifically which one consumes the most. The system will also suggest which of these appliances should I turn off or unplug to be able to save energy.
4. As a home occupant, I want to be able to see my house's current temperature. In this way I would be able to tell whether the cold and warm air valve is working properly, if not, then I would be able to do necessary adjustments. This would keep my house very comfortable during hot summer or cold winter.
5. As a home occupant, I want to use LED lights all over the house and be able to control everything wherever I am in the house. This would make it very easy and convenient for me. This would also help save energy by immediately turning the lights off when not used.
6. To conserve even more energy, I would also like that the LED lights would turn whenever I'm around. By using IR and motion sensor, an array of LEDs would turn on and follow me wherever I go in the house. This also has to work with multiple occupants in the house.
7. To fully make my house self sustained, I want to utilize the new technology in growing food called Aquaponics. I want to be able to control and monitor the acidity and chemical level the Aquaponics system. This would make it very convenient to oversee and maintain the food growing system.
8. For entertainment, I want the existing LED lights installed in the whole house to be able to function as a visual effects on the playing music. The lights would need to dance base on the music that is currently playing. This would not only add cool points but would also keep my guests busy and entertained.
9. I want all functions and requirements above integrated if not in one system then in one device like a tablet, PC or smart cellphone or both. I want the interface to be easy to understand and easy to use, portable and convenient.
10. Because of the systems functionality, I want the whole system to be secure especially from outside interference that may pose threat to the safety of the system and the house. I want to utilize the existing hardware that comes with the system to function as security device/alarm not only inside the house but also on its perimeter. My house would not only be very convenient and comfortable to live in but would also be safe and secure.
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