5C Laundry App

We approached the sustainability track and beginner overlays. Our team interpreted “tech for good” as helping students with all the little things because school is already hard enough; things like laundry shouldn’t hold us down. With the 5C Laundry App, we create a fluid laundry process for everyone: Our app and website give real-time updates and status on available machines and promote proper laundry procedures. Logistically, the 5C Laundry App (5CL) leverages existing consoles in every campus laundry room. When students swipe their IDs, the console notifies servers that a load will begin. When the student finalizes their machine settings and starts, the console uploads the start and stop time to 5CL. Our live map updates occupancies and remaining time for the specific machine. With dryers, the app reminds students to empty the lint container. When a machine is accessed after finishing, a 5-minute grace timer starts so that students have time to remove their clothes before the machine status updates. If a student takes out laundry early, the app asks whether or not the load is finished and updates machine status accordingly. The mobile app is visualized with Figma and our website uses ReactJS, HTML, and CSS. We are hoping that with this app, the laundry process becomes less tedious and time-consuming, and we will be able to save more energy in the process as well as reduce safety hazards and damage to clothes from the broken machines. We value the growth, discovery, and collaboration that are integral to this year’s theme. We remained faithful to rules against plagiarism and shared inspirations with other teams to foster collaboration and camaraderie because we understand that we are working towards tech for good. Moreover, our team ensures that we don’t collect personal data, nor do we share any identifying information.

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript
• react