Canopy is a smart window product that can reduce heating/cooling energy consumption in the modern day home. These windows use electrochromic technology which gives the user control over the amount of light, heat, and glare let into their house. The window settings are all controlled from an app on your phone so you can change your window settings from anywhere in your home.
Poster created by me and another group member, Eric.
Project statement:
To create a window system that will allow the average homeowner to reduce heating and cooling energy consumption.
My main responsibility in this group project was to design the app interface. The interface design was especially important for this project because it was the thing that the consumers of our product would be interacting with the most.
This is the home screen of the app. To increase the opacity of all of the windows in the house, the user must move the slider from left to right depending on how much sun they want to let in. The other option the user has in the home screen is the ability to swipe from the bottom up to reveal more specific settings.
The first thing that pops up after the user swipes up is the individual room settings. This allows the user to control the windows of each room individually. All the user has to do is click the room they want to change and move the slider bar to the desired setting.
This page of the app allows the user to set a natural sunlight alarm. The way that this works is that the user would set an alarm for a certain time and the windows would slowly let in more and more light until the alarm goes off. This gives the user a more natural and peaceful start to their day rather than a noisy alarm clock.
The last page of the app is just for user information and extra help.
Test footage of the app interface.