Visualization of UTP‘s Energy Consumption And Its Carbon Footprint (ENVISION)

The author has done the research on the field of Green IT and the required primary analysis on implementing Green IT in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). This lead the author to believe that the first step to implementing Green IT policies in UTP is to make the UTP‘s senior management aware of the current situation in UTP in terms of UTP‘s energy consumption and carbon footprint levels. In order to raise awareness, the author has developed a visualization based system for visualizing UTP‘s energy consumption and its carbon footprint levels. This system can help UTP‘s management to review the general energy consumption of UTP in order to take immediate action or suggest future energy saving policies. As such, the objective of this project is to study the potential of the project regarding energy consumption and then based on the study, model, and design and develops a user interface that allows the UTP management to make analysis and review on UTP‘s energy consumption and its carbon footprint levels. This system is developed using web programming such as PHP and XHTML by using Dreamweaver CS5 in order to develop an interactive webpage. This project focused on how to effectively and efficiently visualize the data regarding energy consumption and carbon footprint. Critical review of related works on data visualization has been conducted to develop an optimized user interface that is effective. The review will focuses on how to show the data in graphical form so that the senior management in UTP can survey the rough estimate of the current energy consumption and carbon footprint in UTP over a specific period of time and make an analysis from the visual graphics provided by the system.