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A web application which facilitates selling of recyclable products and buying of environment friendly ones. It also enables its users to keep a tab on their monthly Carbon footprint using their electricity, LPG, and fossil fuel usage data.
App ID by IBM cloud has been used to authenticate a user. Once the authentication is succesful, the user lands on the homepage of our website.
If a user wants to sell recyclable waste, he/she can raise a pick-up request through this feature.
A shopping catalog for users to buy green products with discount coupons avaiblable at the expense of coins earned by the user through our carbon footprint-based monthly reward system.
To avail this feature, user has to link his/her electricity, LPG, Petrol/Diesel accounts with the website. Upon successful linkage, Carbon footprint will be calculated based on the following formula.
4 factors have been taken into account:
- Units of electricity (in KWh)-
elec_units - LPG consumed (in Kg)-
LPG - Petrol consumed (in L)-
petrol - Diesel consumed (in L)-
diesel
Emmision factors for the above factors are extracted from trusted recources of -
Central Electricity Authority
Green House Gas Protocol
Emission_Factor_Electricity = 0.8 Kg/KWh;
Emission_Factor_Petrol = 2.296 Kg/L;
Emission_Factor_Deisel = 2.653 Kg/L;
Emission_Factor_LPG = 2.983 Kg/Kg;
Net Kg of CO2 can be calculated as the sum due to individual sources elec_cf + petrol_cf + diesel_cf + LPG_cf
which when divided by 1000 will give the Tonnes of CO2.
We are following the policy which ensures that the more regularly a user reduces carbon footprint, the more rewards a he/she would receive.
To maintain, a non overflowing, readable value of Total coins- the following factor has been used- 0.5 * streak * 100
This is multiplied to the difference of current and previous month's carbon footprint, and rounded of to the nearest integer-
add_to_balance = Math.round((past_cf - cf_basic) * scaling_factor);