Curtainfy

Inspiration

In order to reduce the strain on our electric grid, residential homes are able to close their curtains during the day to reduce heat gain. In the winter, homes should close their curtains in the early evening to prevent heat loss.

What it does

Our app, Curtainfy, tracks the temperature and the azimuth of the sun around your house and suggests which curtains to close and where in order to optimize temperatures in your house and reduce the energy usage of the heating and cooling systems. This reduces our carbon foot print. The app also tracks the amount of solar potential your home has based on its location.

How we built it

We utilized React/Native and Expo to build a dynamic interface. We used Open Weather Map API for our weather data. We also used the Google Project Sunroof data set, NameSunsets.com, and the SunCalc API.

Challenges we ran into

Time constraints as well as resource restraints. We spent a majority of our time learning React/Native as well as learning the many APIs.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our brainstorming session was very well organized. We had great in depth conversations about goals we wanted to achieve and how our application should reach those goals. We love helping make a change and helping people make a change, and having a demonstrable project that has potential to move forward as a project is awesome. We are proud of our dedication as a team to commit to this task. Also, the UI was really well done within the time frame we had, in our humble opinion. Aru is proud of his green Google frisbee.

What we learned

We learned our limits when it comes to coding. We learned team work and communication mixed with creativity to complete our tasks.

Our Vision for Curtainfy

In the future, we would love to incorporate IOT integration for better predictions and cost benefits using a reinforced machine learning model. We understand that fighting climate change requires small help from every household and corporation across the globe. While Curtainfy is limited on data, we hope to make this technology accessible for all to utilize.

Built With

• css
• expo.io
• google-cloud
• google-firebase
• google-firestore
• native
• react