1. Mahavitaran, The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd
has hourly feeder data from its feeders/last-mile transformers.
Data is available for all (almost all districts) from 2007 to 2011.

location:
http://www.mahadiscom.in/feeder-hourly-data/hourly-feeder-load-information_2007_2009.shtm

Goals:
(i) To understand spatial and temporal load patterns from historically supplied power.
    e.g., which regions were supplied the higher/least power and when?
          is there a coorelation with parameters---rural, urban etc.
	  which regions saw the highest load-shedding?

	  a possible output format is similar to:
	  http://gise.cse.iitb.ac.in/ravisagar/thane/graphs.php

(ii) Load patterns extracted can be used to test/compare load prediction algorithms.

Tasks:
(i) Conversion of data to an appropriate format and developing a schema with relevant
    parameters for storage in a database.
(ii) Generating time-series data from each feeder.
(iii) Identifying parameters along which interesting queries can be generated.
(iv) Using time-series data for predictions and answering questions in (iii)
(v) Building an interface for (ii), (iii) and (iv)

2. Building and deploying a power meter device.

The idea here is to build a custom, low-cost power metering device, to measure
voltage, current and phase which has data-logging are data-read out facility.

Tasks:
(i) Study and select a circuit design to measure current and voltage. Identify and
procure all components.
(ii) Build the circuit. Test it.
(iii) Deploy in various scenarios and meausure longish-term ussage statistcs.
(iv) Analyze the data collected.
(v) Extend data extraction mechanisms to delivery via GPRS.

References:
1. A student in the ERTS lab possibly is working on something similar.
2. Soumen has a design which can be built.