Specification of a program to manage the resources of a house in a cyclical closed-loop system.
Sub-component of the Ecovillage Resource Management Spec.
House resources are defined as:
| Resource | Unit |
|---|---|
| 💧 Water | Liter |
| 🌱 Food | Joule |
| ⚡ Energy | Joule |
Thus, a House, in the software can be thought of as a generic interface with the following methods:
getWater()getFood()getEnergy()
You may have several implementations of this generic House interface to meet the needs of people in different bio-regions.
For example, a mid-western house.
A house can be defined in terms of I/O, or inputs and outputs.
Inputs are unique to a geographic location or bio-region, and result in resource generation.
For example, in the mid-west of the United States, an input to a house may be rain-water.
The house would have a rain-water harvesting sub-component that adapts the input of rain-water to the resource of water.
Other geographic locations may have different inputs that lead to water resource generation such as ground-water, salt-water, river-water, glacier-water, or spring-water -- and each water input would need a different sub-component to adapt it to a water resource ready for human consumption.
- Human waste
- are there others?
Certain events may occur in the house during simulation that require resources.
For example, a human may:
- drink water
- eat food
- shower or bathe
- use their laptop computer