Center Venture 2010

It’s (nearly) done!

centerventure — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:11:25 +0000

Here is our Alva device:

And this is our Alva website, where people can monitor their energy consumption:

And this is the code behind it

The creation of ALVA

centerventure — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:02:43 +0000

Our constructing team has already developed a prototype of ALVA:

And besides it has additional functions as well:

Finish..

centerventure — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:05:05 +0000

We have Day 4 and everybody is keen on finish the creation of our new product ALVA including website, brand strategy, business plan, marketing strategy.

Mjammm

centerventure — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:48:43 +0000

After a hard 12 hour work day we are happy to get yummy Chilli con Carne cooked by our maitres de cuisine Christian, Isabella, Andre and Felix.

“Center Housewife” Isabella

Having no can opener, Andre put himself under mortal threat

And that´s the yummy outcome..Bon appetit!

And this is how we like it

By the way, our MAOM Dessert had a slight sexual touch

Business Update

centerventure — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:45:08 +0000

Business guys at work. We have now established a marketing mix plan, a brand strategy, a brand vision and a draft of the business plan for our Alva movement.

Look..

centerventure — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:25:33 +0000

how our product already looks like after 2 days!! Really smart metering

And here a picture with the proud daddy

And if you are now asking yourself what all the business guys are doing, well of course they are working hard:

A name, a logo

centerventure — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:33:11 +0000

Here you go guys, we have some logo suggestions for our product ALVA! Pretty cool, isn´t it? Do you have a favorite one? Post some comments!

I got a feeling..

centerventure — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:23:48 +0000

A little bit about how far the techie team has already come after 1 day! yeah!

Tobias has introduced the fast track of web developing and already established a website, where potential customers can log in and monitor their energy consumption. Here you go, the first draft of our website:

Raphael has revolutionized programming and we are now able to measure the electricity consumption at any given moment. Aim is to come up with an energy consumption curve in the end.

One small step for mankind, a big one for center venture: Jelena and Robert have managed to write a programm, which enables us to switch household appliances on and off by remote control via RFID.

And Felix and Christian, who are constructing our device, are beamed with joy whenever they think of our product.

And this is how it looks like until now..OUR Product: ALVA

+ something in this picture:

Ok, it does not look exactly like our computer model

But hey, the Fortune Cookie said everything will work out on Saturday:

Center Venture postponed..FCB is playing..

centerventure — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:15:29 +0000

and probably loosing. All the CDTM guys are gathered in front of a big screen watching FCB playing against Manchester United. Until now, Manchester scored 2-0. Obviously, the soccer game seems to be more thrilling than Center Venture

Finding a name

centerventure — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:32:14 +0000

Whereas the techie team has already started making the smart metering device and programming the code, the business guys are thinking about a brand strategy, the design and something which turns out to be really difficult..a cool name!

We have already gathered a lot of ideas: plugreen, green juice, smartplug, easy green, greencontrol, econtrol – econvenience, elektrack…comments are more than welcome!