ABSTRACT
IN ORDER TO MAKE a conscious effort to conserve energy at large scale facilities it is necessary to track utility use on a daily basis. An added benefit of utility tracking is that discovering and troubleshooting equipment malfunctions becomes much easier. Utility data has unique and complex characteristics. Collecting, analyzing and publishing utility data to a large number of people puts more eyes on the task of managing utilities. Different people use the data in different ways. Internet technologies allow us to publish utility data, in a meaningful way, to all of those people simultaneously. This chapter describes the characteristics of utility data and utility data users. It also introduces some web programming languages to show how web pages can be designed effectively.
