Let's Plant Breathe

The main aim of our hack is to provide voice to the voiceless i.e. trees which are adversely affected by the pollution. Using IoT sensors and pollution API, we have created a group of talking trees.

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Inspiration

  • Air pollution in India is a serious concern. Of the most populated cities in the world, 21 out of 30 are in India. On the top of them is the capital of India, New Delhi.
  • The 51% of pollution is caused by industrial pollution, 27% by vehicles, 17% by crop burning and 5% by fireworks.
  • India has low per capita emissions of greenhouse gases but the country as a whole is the third largest greenhouse gas producer after China and the United States.

What it does

  • Trees periodically tweet about pollution updates at a particular location!
  • An user can ask a particular tree about the pollution level at a particular location. Seeing the response, people may get motivated about the tree's feelings. ## How we built it
  • We used Twitter API to create virtual profiles(using my own profile for the timing) for trees at particular locations.
  • The trees post updates about the pollution levels at particular locations periodically.
  • Tweepy library(update_status and StreamListener) was used to implement the bot.

Challenges we ran into

We were using Twitter API for the first time, encountered conceptual issues, but tweeps helped during office hours, a huge thanks to them!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Maybe, when this is implemented at a large scale, pollution may get curbed.

What we learned

  • Using Twitter API for bulk data analysis

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