Inspiration
We found that Air conditioning has a big contributor to climate change and people use their AC ineffectively. So in our hope that we will make a website that tells the user how to use their AC effectively and can change a tiny portion of climate change that happens.
What it does
Our website will take the user input of their AC temperature and how many hours that they have been using it. By how many hours they have been used our website will calculate how much carbon dioxide they produce. If the AC temperature is lower than 25 celsius our website will tell them to increase the temperature of the AC to higher than 25 celsius and tell them how much Kwh they can save by increasing it. Our website used API from openweathermap.org to tell their user about their wind and humidity, from that wind data our website will tell the user if it was around 2.0 m/s (consider it was a breeze) they should open their window and turn off their AC.
We have a data log too, by searching it from their name the user can see their past activity. From their temperature AC, the temperature outside, and wind.
How we built it
We build our website using PHP, CSS, HTML, and MYSQL for our database. We use their input data and combine it with data from openweathermap.org API.
Challenges we ran into
We had a problem finding the exact amount of carbon dioxide that the AC produces and how much electricity that the AC use.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are able to design and code the website and connect our website with our database and the API. Other than connecting it from the API we are proud that we can catch/use the data from the API so it can be used in our website. We can make a Line Chart that google provides us how to do and implement to our website.
What we learned
We learn how to find a paper that related to the carbon dioxide that the AC produces and the electricity that the AC produces per/hour. Learn that by using the AC effectively we can help a tiny portion of climate change, other than that we can reduce our electric bills too (it will help our pockets hehe).
What's next for Effective AC
Effective AC not only uses Indonesia weather data but worldwide, it can calculate the amount of carbon dioxide more accurately and Kwh more accurately too.
Website URL :
You can check our website in here : https://ac-effective.000webhostapp.com/index.php Our GitHub : https://github.com/boniyunanda/ac_effective
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