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Residents' portal with power monitoring

A community portal for an apartment association, with live grid-outage and voltage monitoring and alerts.

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Problem

Residents needed one place for building information and — during constant outages — a clear view of when grid power would be cut and whether the backup supply was holding.

Approach

The portal scrapes the utility's published outage schedule from behind bot protection on a schedule, pulls live voltage from a time-series store, and surfaces a single 'power' page — with Telegram alerts when the grid drops or returns.

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Outcomes

  • Residents see outage windows and live voltage at a glance
  • Automatic Telegram alerts when power drops or comes back
  • Resilient scheduled scraping from behind bot protection
  • One portal for community info and utilities status