What is the Home Check Up?

The Home Check-UP system is a specialized system based on the building automation industry (BMS) technology designed to calculate, control and manage energy consumption costs in the building. This system measures and models the per capita consumption of energy factors, whether fossil fuels or electricity, in the building using the technology used in designing intelligent systems (BMS) by engineering and optimizing the consumption pattern. Then based on the model obtained through specialized software, it calculates, evaluates and designs the most optimal consumption algorithm based on all the influencing conditions at home.

By using this engineering model, residents can easily optimize and control the amount and manner of energy consumption according to the given algorithm and gradually reduce the monthly charging costs, which is the result household cost management and reducing carbon dioxide production will be among the most critical challenges in industrialized and developed societies.

Question

The increase in energy prices in recent years, on the one hand, and the decrease in people's ability to pay due to the rise in the price of services and living costs, especially after the Covid-19 epidemic period, on the other hand, have caused the residents of large cities in industrialized countries such as Canada to face serious challenges related to financial management. Rising mortgage rates and multiple monthly payments have made living conditions more difficult for many people.

On the other hand, due to the commitment they made in the Kyoto Treaty and the Paris Agreement to implement comprehensive programs to reduce the production of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide, the industrialized countries have made an extra effort to encourage industrial owners and producers to use reduction programs. They have provided greenhouse effects, but they have not performed very well in the building sector and its users, who have a share of about 40% in the emission of greenhouse gases.

What is the Problem?

One of the essential challenges of modern life, especially in industrialized and developing countries, is the distribution and control of per capita family income and expense management. Contrary to the rich appearance of these countries, most of its citizens face problems in paying monthly installments such as mortgages, car expenses, monthly bills and dozens of payment forms.

Maintaining and charging a residential unit is about $5,400 annually for a household in Canada's big cities. Considering the average annual salary of a Canadian is around $59,300, almost 10% of it is spent on charging costs. In this regard, the production of carbon dioxide, the primary source of which is the increase in excessive consumption of energy products, is a potential threat. It has put human life and the environment in danger. Increasing the earth's temperature and changing the climate conditions, which leads to the risk of forest fires and soil erosion, has become one of the severe challenges facing industrialized and developing countries today.

Effects of the Problem

1-Reduction of purchasing power by paying 10% of salary share to charging and monthly maintenance costs

2- Increase per capita consumption, which produces more carbon dioxide and harms the environment.

3- The increase in the price of energy carriers as a result of the rise in taxes on carbon dioxide production

4- Reducing people's motivation and desire to live in industrial cities, which reduces the demand for new job opportunities and economic development.

Solution

Undoubtedly, optimizing energy consumption can be a reliable and effective solution to reduce the effects of this problem on the household economy. In that case, this issue can be planned in the following ways:

1- Paying attention to construction standards by presenting more creative ideas in the field of sustainable architecture

2- Fundamental improvement in the technical details of electrical and installation plans

3- More severe attention to consumables and building insulation

But all the above cases require the development of macro policies at the level of government decisions and relevant organizations, which is challenging to achieve in practice.

Concept Design

The initial concept of this project is a practical and straightforward solution in the area of consumption management and energy consumption optimization using the technology used in the smart building industry and modern technologies in the form of designing and building computing software and hardware.

Smart with the participation of experts in energy, technology and digital and architectural design. The presented concept can be used most simply and practically possible within the framework of a functional platform in the form of an application by performing a series of intelligent consumption calculations with the help of external hardware (measuring device) concerning adjusting the structure and pattern of consumption per capita according to the type of space, and the calculated location to plan and implement the best mechanism of energy-saving process for users.

Competitive Advantage

1- Gradual reduction of energy consumption and balancing the amount of consumption according to the architecture of the interior space

2-Reducing monthly consumption costs in the energy sector and charging the building in a staggered manner

3- Helping to develop the government's medium and long-term plans to reduce carbon dioxide production

4- Helping the development program of the central government in implementing the commitments of the 20 countries (efforts to reduce the earth's temperature by 2035) and zero carbon by 2050

5- Cultivation of optimal consumption and its development in educational spaces

6- Implementation of the idea of providing energy labels to users who use this program with the support of the government

7- Auditing buildings to encourage residents to set up an optimal consumption system