Schneider Electric counter

A setup for trustless monthly payment settlement

The Problem

Schneider Electric is an electricity consulting company. They can help their clients reduce electricity bill via upgrading their hardware.

1. SE reviews infrastructure and decides on a percent they aim to reduce (e.g. 27%)
2. Client sets up smart contract at https://energy-hack.github.io/order.html#starter, locking payment for SE services.
3. During the month, smart contract updates electricity counters data from the API using Oraclize.
4. Parties track status at https://energy-hack.github.io/status.html#0xF7BCcF0032f5357c7A563ba8e5A14d43092d230e: current usage, current estimated usage.
5. After the end of the period, contract decides on the outcome and unlocks the amount of tokens:

• if savings had took place, SE receives payment for services in full
• if the numbers are lower, SE receives only a fraction of their check

6. On the result page, all the info is given:

• https://energy-hack.github.io/result#0xF7BCcF0032f5357c7A563ba8e5A14d43092d230e

Why blockchain?

Neither SE nor client trust each other enough. Currently this data is being processed manually. Using blockchain, we can make this trustless enough, so they can trust the outcome.

Blockchain also stores all the historical values. One can check that they are in sync with real-world data. Oraclize also stores proofs in IPFS.

Improvements

• alerts when usage peaks above steady growth
• more complicated formulae
• fiat settlement is possible

Acknowledgments

This project receives a #1 "Energomanagement" prize at https://energyhack.ru.

Usage

If you are interested in connecting this to your workflow, contact me at https://t.me/caffeinum or https://bykhun.com