Welcome
JayNick.com, LLC, established in 2007, is developing applications using real-time data. Sources of real-time data for which applications have been developed include:
After a 31 year career in the electric utility industry, I am interested in the Real-Time pricing rates for electricity. These rates require tools to:
- Monitor the Price of Electricity
- Monitor Electrical Use
- Automatically Control Electrical Loads
- Report on What Happened
Real-time pricing rates are available in Illinois for Commonweath Edison and Ameren utilities customers.
For ComEd customers, freely available tools are a Firefox Toolbar and
a Google Gadget.
For Ameren customers, freely available tools are a Firefox Toolbar,
Google Gadget,
Vista Gadget
and Apple Dashboard Widget.
Monitor your electrical use with TED, the Energy Detective. It tells you how much you are using right now, not delayed like so many other products available. With TED Footprints software interface, the data is available to your computer. For TED customers, look for a freely available Firefox toolbar called TED the Toolbar which works with the real-time data TED Footprints makes available.
There needs to be automatic controls so you don't have to continuously watch the price of electricity and how much electricity you are using. For tools to help with that look for software that interfaces with 1-wire devices and the Maverick. Both can control the HVAC.
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.
MaverickDB will collect, store, and report on the logging data in the Maverick.
TEDdb is being developed and will collect, store, and report on hourly TED data. Custom reports can be added to sum on/off peak electrical use. The software will be enhanced to collect real-time prices of electricity which will allow reports that show hour by hour electrical use and cost for bill comparisons.
The 1-wire software supports multiple temperature sensors to monitor temperatures throughout the house. The data can be averaged over 5 minute intervals, collected, stored, and reported on. A reporting tool for this data is in the works.
Customized reports can be added to the software.