CarbonWatch

Home page
Map View to see pollution data and local representative at any location
Individual carbon footprint
Questionnaire to calculate carbon footprint
Submit a complaint to your local representative

Inspiration We wanted to create an app that allows a user to contact their political representative about environmental issues, as well as monitor his/her own environmental impact. Due to the nature of our idea, we decided to use the Phone2Action API to be able to contact local representatives.

What it does In order to record a user's environmental impact, the app - through a questionnaire - will calculate the total carbon footprint of the user. We also implemented a feature for members of the community to directly alert their local representative about any concerns in the surrounding area. This "concerns" feature allows for politicians to easily hear the people's thoughts and work with them.

How we built it We used Android Studio and Java to create the app. We also integrated the AirNow API to get air quality data and Phone2Action to get legislator data in certain regions.

Challenges we ran into We had issues converting code from one laptop to another, so we plan to use Github to collaborate in the future.

Accomplishments that we are proud of We are proud of our user interface design in addition to the development of the carbon footprint formula through our form.

What we learned We learned many ways to integrate API into Android applications and display the data from the JSON structures.

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Hack TJ 6.0

Created by

I set up the Google Authentication Service and Form Submission with Android Studio along with heading the design of the user interface.

Prateek Gunnam
I worked on finding the APIs used for air quality and energy consumption. I also helped make the graphical designs.

Nitish Gorentala
I did the bulk of the research behind our idea and I designed the structure and layout of our app.

EthanAristanto
I worked on integrating the APIs into the application along with building the user interface.

Rohan Voddhi

Updates

Prateek Gunnam started this project — Apr 06, 2019 11:59 AM EDT

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