ABSTRACT
PRESENTING UTILITY DATA in a meaningful way may be an art or it may be a science. However, one thing is for sure, the design of the presentation depends entirely on those who will be using it. Once the general specification for the utility information is created, it is the responsibility of the developer to make the pages informative, intuitive, reliable and robust. Using web technologies, a developer can make large amounts of utility data come alive with informative “vision” into utility consumption. Web pages full of utility data can be transformed instantaneously from one report to another. Trends can show critical values that may have been missed otherwise. Data can be compared and analyzed immediately rather than sifting through reams of paper reports and spreadsheets. The user of the data becomes the master of it rather than the other way around.
