Carbon Footprint Monitoring System

A project to calculate & monitor carbon footprint. It notifies the user and suggests ways to control and reduce their carbon footprint.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Seeed Studio Grove starter kit plus for Intel Edison

Software apps and online services

Amazon Web Services AWS IoT

Google Maps

Story

Did you know that annual CO2 emission per person in America is 20 metric tons per year which is 5 times more than the world average of 4 tons!

Why is Carbon Footprint an important factor for consideration?

Carbon footprint is a number that indicates the contribution by an individual, directly or indirectly, in producing carbon based gases like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, etc., in a year. To put it in simple words, if a person drives a car, it leads to certain amount of CO2 emission based on the distance traveled and fuel consumption of the car. CO2 emission also takes place when heater or any other appliance that uses electricity or gas is used.

Carbon footprint is calculated based on various factors like consumption of resources (water, electricity and gas), waste production, means of regular commute, etc. But, the two major contributors that lead to increase in the carbon footprint are transportation and energy consumption.

Increased Carbon Footprint will result in adverse effects on environment like rising temperatures and rising sea levels that will in turn cause damage to the ecosystem.

The purpose of our project is to make every individual aware of his/her footprint and suggest ways to reduce it which, in turn, leads to a better life for everyone.

Our project includes an Android application that will be used for monitoring carbon footprint and would suggest the ways to reduce it. There will also be a home automation and control device that would help control the carbon footprint by being energy efficient.

For example, as mentioned earlier, if a person is driving a car, our app will calculate the corresponding CO2 emission depending upon the distance traveled by a person and the miles per gallon capacity of the the car. It would also suggest the use of public transportation if the travel time is similar.

Code

Monitoring activity of electrical appliance (Relay)

// Edison Relay Basic
const int buttonPin = 3;     // the button is attached to digital pin 3
const int relayPin =  6;     // the relay is attached to digital pin 9
const int buzzerPin = 4;
int buttonState = 0;
int count = 0;
void setup() {
    Serial.begin(9600);
    pinMode(relayPin, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(buzzerPin, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
}

boolean released = false;
void loop() {
   // read the state of the button:
    buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
    
    if (buttonState == 1)   
    {
      if(released == true) {
        digitalWrite(relayPin, HIGH);
        count = count + 1;
        Serial.print("Count = ");
        Serial.print(count);
        Serial.print("\n");
        released = false;
        
      }
    }
    else   
    {
      if(released == false) {
        digitalWrite(relayPin, LOW);
        released = true;
      }
    }
    if(count > 10)
        {
          
          digitalWrite(buzzerPin,HIGH);
          delay(10000);
          count = 0;
          
          }
          else
          digitalWrite(buzzerPin,LOW);

}

Credits

Poornima Eshwara

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Mayur Dhikle

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Carbon Footprint Monitoring System