UTM MCS students win the best student app award for the Ontario Energy Challenge

We are proud to announce that three MCS Computer Science students, Zohaib Ahmed, Kumar Pandya and Rashaad Ramdeen have won the Best Student App Award for their Wattermelon App at the Energy Apps for Ontario challenge, hosted by MaRS Discovery District and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Energy.

Wattermelon monitors your energy usage by utilizing the Green Button technology that connects to smart meters. It does all the work of gathering and organizing your energy data, and provides meaningful goals and actionable tasks so property owners can get the most savings.

Wattermelon does a couple of unique things, as in calculating future usage based on previous gathered stats, and provides a social interface which allows property owners to compare their usage to their community. [Names] are currently working with various utilities (Hydro One, London Hydro, etc) to bring this to thousands of property owners.

The students thanked their professor, Arnold Rosenbloom, for his teaching "as this all could not have happened without you!"
Arnold had taught them in courses such as CSC309: Programming on the Web and CSC490: Capstone Design Course.  A complete list if Computer Sciences courses can be seen here.