The Visible Energy Customer Portal is a Web 2.0 interactive tool to engage people on personal energy consumption issues through a process of learning through feedback, understanding and taking action on personal energy consumption responsibility. It is a customizable consumer energy portal that provides detailed consumer energy usage and generation data, cost and environmental impact information, and tools to motivate behavioral change.

Main functions of the portal are:
  • Real-time Energy Data Acquisition
  • Energy Data Visualization
  • Social Data Sharing
  • Carbon Footprint Calculator
  • Recommendation Engine
  • Partner Content Management

Near real-time actual electrical data can be acquired from IP-connected devices in the consumer premises, including socket-level devices such as the Visible Energy Smart Outlets products, third-party IP-enabled sub-meters, smart-meters, solar power local generators and IP-enabled inverters.