Starting out this week we have big news… We all have received access to the Microsoft program Power BI. This is the foundation of our dashboard as it is compatible with Duke’s information platform and will have the capability to input the live data collected at the co-generation plant. We are still figuring out kinks in the collaboration aspect of the application, including establishing a schedule for development.

On Thursday, the team made their way out to the plant to discuss the usability of the dashboard with our direct customers, Steve and Frank. We asked questions like “When you look at the dashboard for thirty seconds, what would you like to see”. Defining the absolutely necessary components versus ones that would be fun as additions is important to ensure that our product solves the problems within our scope first. From here we will be continuing to develop the dashboard and we have set a schedule with Duke for iterative testing.