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JayNick.com, LLC was established May, 2007 to continue applying what I've learned after a 31 year career in the electric utility industry. My passion is working with real-time data in web applications using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
As a former utility employee, I am interested in the Real-Time pricing rates for electricity. I see the need for tools to monitor both the current price of electricity and how much you are using right now. I have developed tools that work with available products to help do just that.
In Illinois, both Ameren utilities and Commonweath Edison have real-time pricing rates. For Ameren customers, I have a Firefox Toolbar, Google Gadget and Vista Gadget. For ComEd customers, right now there is just a Google Gadget.
TED, the Energy Detective, is a great product for monitoring how much electricity you are using right now. With TED Footprints software interface, the data is available to your computer. I have a Firefox toolbar called TED the Toolbar which works with the real-time data TED Footprints makes available.
In addition to monitoring the price of electricity and how much you are using, there needs to be automatic controls so you don't have to watch these values continuously. For that, I developed software that interfaces with 1-wire devices and can control the HVAC. Multiple temperature sensors can be added to monitor temperatures throughout the house. Averaged over 5 minute intervals, the data can be transformed into an SVG graph. Monitoring the real-time price of electricity and the temperature in the house, the thermostat circuit for the air conditioner can be enabled or disabled to run only when you want it to - not when the utility decides.
Lastly, I chose the JayNick.com domain because, since 2001, there was a collection of SVG demos on WPS Energy Services website in a JayNick subdirectory. Times change and that subdirectory is gone, but I provide links to the remaining online demos and have added many of the original demos to this site. In addition to the JayNick.com domain, the W3Controls.com domain will also get you here. However, you got here, I hope you find something useful. Thanks for visiting.