I am an underGrad, despite that being an individual that loves participating in

competitions, I have participated in quite few competitions.

Challenge: One of the competition gave us the Problem of Domestic Electricity wastage. We had to come up with a solution that reduces electricity loss.

Selection: For the selection process, I’ve decided to use “Visualization” as visualizing the entire process we can see how we are wasting electricity.

Application: So I sat down, played a video of an average day in our life. While the “movie” played in my head I’d ask myself 1.When would a certain device be turned on 2.When would a certain device stay on 3.When would a certain device be turned off

Insights: By doing this, we could see that 1.we generally we would turn on a device when

we really need to use it whether or not the device is by prior turned on

2.We would let the device stay on as long as we

are using it

3.We would generally leave the device on, for

further usage

This is where majority of the electricity we waste go wasted. Here the problem is the laziness to turn off a device and instead work on the next task we have to do So the solution as it would be for any

boredom/laziness related problem is automation. Implementing a system that senses the number of users using a certain device and appropriately turning on/off the device

Approach: An alternative approach would be one of storytelling, we could tell the story of a daily day in one’s life instead of watching a mental movie, as a matter of fact we all know the story of our own daily life.

