Team: 40
School: Socorro High
Area of Science: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Proposal: As technology gets more and more advanced, more electricity is drawn from each outlet in your home. Due to all of this new technology being in demand from the public, it is more common for breakers and fuse boxes to blow because of the amount of power being consumed in households. This may not be a huge inconvenience for people who are doing activities such as watching television or charging batteries, but the people who work on a computer from home may experience a loss of progress if the power stops being supplied. This may result in the loss of a job if a lot of work/data were to be lost. We have created a product that will allow you to determine if you are close to drawing too much power from an outlet. This will let you know what you can plug in and where. When a lot of power is being drawn and you are getting close to blowing a fuse, the system will alert you so you are aware of what will happen if more power is consumed. Therefore, you will never have to worry about your work because the power to your computer will continue to be supplied.
The product will be set in all of your outlets and one raspberry pi will be placed somewhere near the center of your house that will link all of the “slave Pi’s†and it will provide all of the information to the web server which you may log into. The website will include the amount of volts and amps being consumed as well as the amount that is being supplied. Having this information on a website would allow you to oversee the information from anywhere around the world. On this website, we will have a username and password login screen to ensure that people can be protected. People need to be protected from people viewing the pattern of the amount of power being used when someone is home. They can use this knowledge to find out when someone is not home so they can steal things without the owner finding out.
Alexander Torres
Brandon Hobbs
Teacher,
Jay Garcia
Team Members:
Sponsoring Teacher: Jay Garcia