🌱 CarboniQ — AI-Powered Sustainability

Inspiration

We wanted to make sustainability easier and more engaging. Many people want to reduce their carbon footprint but don't know where to start. CarboniQ aims to turn environmental awareness into meaningful everyday action.

💡 What It Does

CarboniQ helps users calculate their carbon footprint, understand their environmental impact, and receive personalized AI-powered recommendations. It also offers an interactive simulator, sustainability missions, progress tracking, and rewards to encourage greener habits.

Our platform estimates carbon emissions using:

$$ C_{\text{total}} = C_{\text{transport}} + C_{\text{energy}} + C_{\text{food}} + C_{\text{shopping}} + C_{\text{waste}} $$

🛠️ How We Built It

We built CarboniQ using:

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Express.js and Node.js
• Database & Authentication: Firebase
• AI Integration: Google Gemini API
• Data Visualization: Interactive charts and dashboards

📚 What We Learned

Building CarboniQ helped us learn how to integrate AI into a real-world application, calculate estimated carbon emissions, build interactive dashboards, and use gamification to encourage sustainable behavior.

🚧 Challenges We Faced

Our biggest challenge was combining carbon calculations, personalized AI recommendations, real-time data, and gamification into one application. We also focused on creating a user-friendly experience and keeping AI API credentials secure.

🌍 What's Next

We aim to improve CarboniQ's recommendations, expand its sustainability insights, and help more people understand how small everyday changes can contribute to a greener future.

Built With

• ai
• api
• artificial
• authentication
• css
• data
• express.js
• firebase
• firestore
• gemini
• generative
• html
• javascript
• node.js
• react
• recharts
• rest
• sustainability
• tailwind
• typescript
• visualization
• vite