As winter and the deadline for the first challenge are coming, it is time to state how advanced we are today (2016-07-19). Moreover it's been a while since we haven't post something about our advances its because... we're trying to progress !

2016-07-19

Technically

• We've installed Ehtereum node on independant Raspberry Pi II and III and made them communicate with a local ethereum blockchain
• We've made some basic transaction on the local blockchain between the Raspberry PI
• We've code a energy "smart contract" that has not been tester yet
• We've finished soldering on the CiizenWatt PCB, unfortunaltely it doesnt't work yet (we've got some trouble with it... we'll explain later in antoher log)

Functionnally

• We are looking for experimental territories to test in real conditions
• We've found another playground remotely from Lyon at the @Louis Villard parents' house engaged in a transition process
• We still don't understand why our CitizenWatt are not working
• Open Energy Monitor is functional but suffers from weak sensitivity and consistance in consumption data.

The related documentation :

• for the CitizenWatt
• for the installation of Ethereum on a OpenEnergyMonitor
• for the SmartContract

Lot of work has been lead by @Sam @Louis Villard and @Paul Fl on soft and hardware.

Extensive work has been lead by @Nicolas Loubet @Rieul Techer @Aude Omn and @xavier on the ecosystem and community building around te DAISEE project.

Carry on following the feed... more logs to come.

2016-04-25

Technically

• We can measure and log current thanks to the current clamp
• We installed the Ethereum client on a Raspberry Pi
• We can perform some basic smartcontracts

Functionally

• We have the building that will serve as playground for the project (La M[y]ne, the physical space hosting la Paillasse Saône, eco hacklab in Lyon, France)
• We are in the process of building 5 pairs of Citizen-Watt + Raspberry Pi

We will use a Citizen Watt board to measure and tokenize the energy production and consummation : this is basically a current clamp connected to an home made customized Arduino (ATMega368 based PCB).

On a Raspberry Pi, we will manage the blockchain capabilities (via Ethereum), the smart contract between actors, allowing a smart and decentralized governance.

Planning of the project

Step 1

We use each room of a house to act as various actors in a simulated energy market.

Step 2

We scale up the POC to a few houses to create a real small energy market, some actors producing energy, some other consuming, and some actors doing both.