The Power Of EnergyDeck In Your Pocket - Introducing Our New Mobile App

Managing energy can be complicated and confusing. The EnergyDeck platform provides a simple and powerful user interface to track and manage buildings - from individual homes to large commercial real estate portfolios. However we thought it was time that this interface was pocket sized. The perfect solution? The new EnergyDeck app!

We created the app so that users can access and gain insights into their resource consumption and costs, wherever they are, at the click of a button. We have presented the data in simple and elegant graphs and charts, so you can quickly see the information that really matters.

The app is browser based and can be accessed from any modern smartphone or tablet. There are four key sections available in the app today; My Costs, My Usage, My Trends and My Data. 

My Home

From here you can access all the key features of the app.

Furthermore the user can select a property if multiple buildings have been created in the account by clicking on the circular logo in the top left corner of the screen.

My Costs

The simple and intuitive design of the costs page allows users to see their total energy costs in a pie chart divided into segments for each resource. The page makes it easy to see how spending compares to previous time periods, so it is clear when users have over or under-spent.

My Usage

My Usage shows how the user’s property performs compared to similar buildings in our database. The percentage indicates how much better or worse the property performs for the selected metric (electricity, gas etc). The colour of the house graphic changes based on the relative performance (red = worse, green = better than average). Individuals can use this information to get an idea of how much they could improve their energy consumption, and set themselves goals and targets to match other people.

My Trends

The bar chart is a feature that tracks usage over time in a detailed way. The granularity of the chart automatically adapts to the selected time range - it shows monthly data for an annual period, and half hourly data (if available) if only one or several days are selected. Users can also switch between cost and consumption views of their data, if they have provided a tariff for their resource consumption (tariffs can be set in the Settings menu accessible via the icon in the top right corner).

Progress in reducing consumption becomes more evident, encouraging users to persist with their efforts and drive ongoing reductions and efficiencies.

My Data

The last section of the app shows the data and details of different meters so users can keep meter data up to date in the platform. Meter readings can be entered directly via the device from the app.

We will talk about this functionality in more detail in a future blog post (hint: it’s very cool - it allows you to take pictures of your meters and upload them together with the readings to the app, making them available in the main platform as well; you can also use the barcode scanning functionality of your phone to scan the meter ID and directly navigate to the corresponding meter in the list for data entry, which is very useful if you're managing more than a handful of meters).

See for yourself!

The app is free of use to all our users, which means it's free, full stop, thanks to the EnergyDeck Free Access plan.

The app is available to use on platform.energydeck.com/mobile. Do let us know what you think and what additional functionality you would like to see!

In the future we will be working on new ideas, such as the app making tenants aware of alternative energy tariffs that can save them money, and in turn facilitating communication between landlords and tenants. We hope that the app will be a valuable tool that gives people clear insight into how to save money and gets them more engaged with improving energy consumption.