GOALS AND STRONG POINTS:

We want to create a simple app with the aim of sensitizing people about the carbon footprint topic. Everybody would be able to know exactly its daily footprint thanks to the constant update of data collected by the system. Bigfoot tracks down your purchases and your travels, collaborates with companies and keeps you informed on global scale events related to carbon footprint with the precious NASA's dataset. Bigfoot is fun, intuitive, practical and provides captivating features in order to entertain and sensitize at the same time. Our hope is to shape a world where carbon footprint is a primary topic to deal with in ordinary life.

FUNCTIONING AND FEATURES:

Using geolocalization and Bluetooth connection to the vehicle, our app can store any information about your travels, recording consumption. Bigfoot can also detect your speed, notify you in order to figure out which kind of transportation you're using. Basing on your quick answer, our app calculates the consumption. Either you buy something or move somewhere, you are aware of the amount of CO2 you're producing and more motivated to contribute to the reduction of it.

Businesses play a fundamental role; our app takes advantage of the data collected by companies about every product and store them into the app's dataset. The database is made with already existing information, in fact businesses have to detect all the carbon emissions to not exceed limitations. Bigfoot can connect with cash register (e.g. at the supermarket you can transfer your purchase on the app) to take note of every product you have bought and their carbon footprint. Bigfoot automatically creates a legend that compares different brands and shows you the less impacting product with the aim of making the consumer more aware about its habits' sustainability. Users can also scan with his camera phone the bar code of any product to discover every single information regarding the impact of the product on the environment.

Bigfoot knows your online purchases and creates a "carbon invoice" that takes note of every product you buy online. This feature can be exploited for airplane or train tickets and online shopping in general. Through ICAO's calculator, our app estimates the impact of the airplane travel and "brings you the bill" of the carbon footprint.

Bigfoot keeps you informed about the world situation; connecting to NASA's database, it shows you the carbon footprint of natural events like wildfires or artificial catastrophes.

Our app quantifies your footprint through an intuitive and impactful visualization of the number of trees that should be planted to mitigate the effect. Every user can also see a live summary of his carbon footprint with a "virtual foot size" and compare it with other users' footprint.

Bigfoot also provides features to captivate the attention of consumers and entertain them at the same time, such as global rankings, virtual rewards and challenges with other users. Consumers can also gather in teams in order to see their impact as a group. This feature could be useful for families, friends on vacation or colleagues that want to separate their single impact from the group.