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Project Title: City of South Bend Office of Sustainability EASSI Data Dashboard (South Bend, IN)

enFocus Inc.

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Project Title City of South Bend Office of Sustainability EASSI Data Dashboard (South Bend, IN)
Project Topics Data Management Operations Product Design & Development
Skills & Expertise
Project Synopsis: Challenge/Opportunity
The City of South Bend's Office of Sustainability EASSI program assists nonprofits and community organizations to complete energy efficiency and solar projects. This new City program started in January 2022 and has 18 total participants. The opportunity is to assist the City of South Bend's Office of Sustainability to identify and focus on all-important KPIs by developing a professional dashboard that allows EASSI program participants to monitor, gain insights, and make high-quality, timely decisions on key issues. Project Location: City of South Bend's TRC Building, 1165 Franklin St. #100, South Bend, IN 46601
Project Synopsis: Activities/Actions Required
EASSI participants are interested in a public display, kiosk, or dashboard that can create more visibility around their solar project and educate and inspire visitors of all ages about solar and sustainability. (Typically, EASSI projects are not as visible since solar installation is on the rooftop). The EASSI participants are using different inverters that all provide in some format monitoring information, but it is not very user-friendly and accessible for the public. (All of the inverters have some form of API integration capabilities to allow other software applications to access its monitoring system).

Additionally, the software for inverters typically only displays the outputs of the solar panels, and participants are interested in more educational information about how they are utilizing solar and becoming more sustainable.
Project Synopsis: Expected Results
The Office of Sustainability is interested in producing at minimum an interactive dashboard to deliver to each of its EASSI participants to display on the website and/or in their public lobbies. This project could create the pathway integration for organizations to export data to a public facing dashboard that can me more customizable, friendly and accessible. A project team can also develop a dashboard template for further customizations.

Project Timeline

enFocus Inc. - City of South Bend Office of Sustainability EASSI Data Dashboard (South Bend, IN)
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Wed, 10/05/22
12:00 AM UTC
Teams Introduced
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Student Teams Introduced to Project Mentors
Thu, 10/06/22
12:00 AM UTC
Finalize, Sign & Upload Statement on Intellectual Property Rights
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Sun, 10/09/22
12:00 AM UTC
Pre-Engagement Self Assessment
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Please complete this Pre-Engagement Self Assessment, which will help us measure your growth and learning!
Mon, 10/10/22
12:00 AM UTC
End of Day 1 GROUP Temperature Check
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By the end of Day 1, please schedule 20-30 minutes as a team either in person or via Zoom to check-in with each other. Give each person a chance to share 1) what they feel is going best so far about the project and 2) what questions/hopes they have for addressing any challenges that are coming up. 

Then, as a team please discuss and complete the questions in the GROUP TEMPERATURE CHECK. During the meeting, have one representative enter and submit the team's responses. 

Students may also reach out individually with any questions or concerns to Professor Muir (kmuir2@nd.edu), to Ben Wilson (bwilson2@nd.edu), or to your project mentor. 
Mon, 10/10/22
12:00 AM UTC
Program Kickoff
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Tue, 10/11/22
12:00 AM UTC
End of Day 2 INDIVIDUAL Temperature Check
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By the end of your second day (Tuesday, Oct 11), as an individual please complete this INDIVIDUAL TEMPERATURE CHECK to provide your feedback on how things are going. Each person should submit an individual response.
Tue, 10/18/22
12:00 AM UTC
Post-Engagement Assessment
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Please complete this Post-Engagement Assessment so we can hear more about your experience and help measure your learning and growth!