Floorplan-based residential energy audit and asset tracking

Abstract

A method includes populating a touchscreen interface with visual representations of rooms of a residential home, providing a list of assets in a manner facilitating use of the touchscreen select an asset for a visual representation of a room, facilitating entry of make and model information of the selected asset, and obtaining and storing energy audit information regarding the selected asset via a network connection.

1 . A method comprising:
 populating a touchscreen interface with visual representations of rooms of a residential home;   providing a list of assets in a manner facilitating selection of an asset for a room;   facilitating entry of make and model information of the selected asset; and   obtaining and storing energy audit information regarding the selected asset via a network connection.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1  wherein populating the touchscreen interface with visual representations of rooms includes retrieving tax records to identifying rooms to include. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2  and further comprising facilitating selection of additional rooms from a rooms menu to drag to a room workspace. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1  and further comprising including representations of predefined assets with visual representations of rooms as a function of assets likely to be found in each type of room. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the assets include energy consuming assets. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1  and further comprising providing an interface to facilitate entry of asset types not found in the provided list of assets. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1  wherein data identifying the rooms and assets is stored in cloud storage via the network connection. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1  and further comprising providing an interface to facilitate capture of make and model information via a camera using a scanned code or image recognition. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1  and further comprising performing an energy audit based on collected data identifying the rooms and assets. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9  wherein the energy audit includes a connection to a utility company to view a utility bill, an energy analysis, and energy saving tips based on the collected data. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 9  wherein the energy audit includes identification of local rebates available. 
     
     
         12 . A computer readable storage device having instructions for causing a mobile device to execute a method, the method comprising:
 populating a touchscreen interface with visual representations of rooms of a residential home;   providing a list of assets in a manner facilitating use of the touchscreen to selected an asset;   facilitating entry of make and model information of the selected asset; and   obtaining and storing energy audit information regarding the selected asset via a network connection.   
     
     
         13 . A device comprising:
 a processor;   a storage device to store code to execute on the processor;   a touchscreen to display graphical representations of rooms and assets and to facilitate user input via screen touches and gestures;   wherein the code executing on the processor causes the device to perform a method comprising:   populating the touchscreen with visual representations of rooms of a residential home;   providing a list of assets in a manner facilitating use of the touchscreen to select an asset for a visual representation of a room;   facilitating entry of make and model information of the selected asset; and   obtaining and storing energy audit information regarding the selected asset via a network connection.