Outcome

The final outcome is a prototype that, when turned on, will detect if you have left the light on in the room or not. It will then record the light value to the cloud. In a real-life scenario, when a person leaves the room, they would turn on the device. Of course, this isn’t as out-of-the-way as I stated in the problem statement, so next steps could include adding another sensor that detects when a person leaves a room. Then, they wouldn’t have to manually change the device settings, making the device more a part of the background (which could then allow the device to get more accurate readings).