Refrigerator energy consumption cost using online web app

Over the years I’ve often suggested to smaller businesses they may wish to provide a simple web app for their clients to help promote their business. Developing a native app for mobile devices such as the iPhone can be very expensive, but a simple web app is relatively straight forward and much cheaper to produce.

I’ve produced a number of web apps for my own use and these apps now generate a reasonable amount of traffic to my site (www.JustLocal.com.au) thus letting potential customers know about a service I offer.

One app I’ve written I wrote for myself and is now been used by many hundreds of people is the Energy Cost Calculator. An example of using the app is to determine the cost of running your appliances around your home and business. For example a refrigerator consumes around 40-50W per hour. If you’ve got a spare fridge in the garage keeping your beer cool, then you may wish to reconsider because that fridge may be costing you around $100 a year. That’s quite a bit of beer money.

Think about the types of calculator you may wish to provide to your customers. A good idea is to create a calculator which can assist you with your work and in doing so, the money you spend having your web app developed could potentially pay for itself by your own use. Then making the web app available to your customers is a bonus for both yourself and your customers.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au