What Is Our Carbon Footprint?
Carbulator
Summary
Carbulator is an application which helps you to measure your carbon-footprint on weekly basis. It also provides you an annual average. With this application that everyone will have in their smart watches, phones, computer, etc. weekly carbon footprint data will be obtained. The obtained data will show the total carbon footprint of that region. The amount spent may vary from person to person or from week to week, The obtained data will go to Environment Departments and arrangements will be made accordingly. Individuals with the least carbon consumption will be identified and tax deductions will be given to them with a certificate.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We developed an application which allows you to measure your carbon-footprint.
What does it do?
- Every week your carbon footprint data will be obtained. The obtained data will show you your carbon-footprint and the total carbon footprint of that region. The amount spent may vary from person to person or from week to week, The obtained data will go to Environment Departments and arrangements will be made accordingly. Individuals with the least carbon consumption will be identified and tax deductions will be given to them with a certificate.
Qualities
- It is an application which can be integrated with all the software systems (macOS, GNU/Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows, HarmonyOS).
- Taxes charged to devices with a carbulator will be reduced. The purchase of devices used for a carbulator will come with no interest financing options.
- Tax reduction is earned with the carbon emission reduction certificate given by the Environment Departments.
As Viva we want to lead the way in carbon-footprint reduction. If we don't decrease our carbon-footprint there may not be a future for the next generation. We believe in our application to make a significant amount of changes in order to decrease the total amount of carbon-footprint.
Here is our presentation and presentation video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xe8u1-VQKVtfKH6P_4Cjxs2z_2kxUTFo/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JPtqLyzo6W7iPc_0q7JJs_B_X2soPDDV/view?usp=sharing
How We Developed This Project
We were inspired by the weird events in the World (sudden decrease of temperature in the states of Montana and Colorado in the USA, whirlwinds in the Mediterranean, heat waves from Africa, dust storms, sudden change of air ...) which shows us the consequences of the climate change. With our efforts to decrease the carbon-footprints we can prevent those kind of events to happen in the future.
If we were to make this application we would use Java,C,C++ .
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We would use space agency data to accurately calculate carbon emissions.
Data & Resources
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