Inspiration
Sustainability is the way of the future, and an issue that impacts every single Fortune 500 company as well as a majority of smaller companies as well. By creating a solution for corporations that is automated, we can fix the biggest bottleneck for tracking, analyzing, and reporting ESG or GHG emissions; getting a lot of accurate and usable data. By creating a cloud platform that is aligned with other software suites that a company has, we can take that data (which might be airplane flights for executives, information on where electricity is sourced from, the amount of paper used per quarter, or the type of lightbulbs used in a building) and run an analysis on that data to not only calculate scope 3 emissions accurately, but also cheaply.
What it does
By utilizing a cloud platform, we can easily plug in our platform into an existing tech stack and utilize their data for our calculations. This is very important because we can build a big data pipeline for CI/CD, while still being lean enough that it won't take too much of a company's resources. We take in this data, and run analyses, and return the data in an actionable and understandable format.
How we built it
Right now we built this on a website, which was because of the time constraint. We used Azure for hosting the datatables and the website, as well as utilizing different resources from Azure for doing the calculations on the data we input into the website.
Challenges we ran into
One really big challenge was trying to find a way to implement a lot of data to a website quickly, efficiently, without losing any data, and while still ensuring that it's accurate and within reasonable parameters. Another challenge was actually building this web app, which I didn't have any experience with.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I learned how to use Python, SQL, and HTML in a real world scenario, as well as utilizing Django for building a website hosted on the web.
What we learned
Improved my proficiency with Python, SQL, HTML, Django, and full stack web development.
What's next for Scope 3 GHG emissions tracking
First is to make a functioning website that can accurately and quickly analyze data and give an accurate estimation of what a companies Scope 3 emissions is. Then to be able to transition this to the cloud and allow it to plug into other products to gather data.
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