EcoTracker: Sustainability at Your Fingertips
Abstract
EcoTracker is a software solution designed to promote environmental sustainability by enabling users to track and reduce their carbon footprint through daily activities. EcoTracker aims to integrate seamlessly with existing lifestyle applications to provide actionable insights and sustainable alternatives to users’ routines, fostering a community dedicated to making eco-friendly choices and leveraging quality attributes such as scalability, maintainability, and interoperability.
Author
Name: Khushi Jain
Student number: 47414808
Functionality
EcoTracker offers a comprehensive set of features designed to engage users in sustainable living. These include:
- Carbon Footprint Tracking: Calculates users’ daily carbon emissions based on transportation, diet, energy usage, and shopping habits.
- Sustainable Alternatives: Provides eco-friendly alternatives and suggestions to reduce the carbon footprint.
- Community Challenges: Engages users with community-driven sustainability challenges to encourage collective action.
- Integration with Lifestyle Apps: Connects with fitness trackers, smart home devices, and shopping apps to automate footprint tracking and suggestions.
Scope
The MVP will focus on essential functionalities such as basic carbon footprint tracking (for transportation and energy usage) and provide sustainable alternatives for these areas. Community features and further integrations will be part of the future roadmap.
Quality Attributes
- Scalability: Essential to accommodate a growing user base and integrate with an expanding ecosystem of lifestyle applications.
- Maintainability: Ensures the application can evolve with emerging sustainability practices and technologies.
- Interoperability: Crucial for seamless integration with various third-party services and devices to automate the tracking and suggestion process.
Evaluation
- User Engagement: Increase in daily active users and interaction with sustainability suggestions.
- Impact Measurement: Reduction in average carbon footprint among active users.
- Integration Success: Number and smoothness of third-party service integrations.