Join our Peer Programming Call-In
We're going to start implementing the Utility Emissions Channel use case together to demonstrate the idea described here. Join our zoom call to code with us:
When:
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
9:00am to 10:00am
(UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles
Where:
https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community
This Minimum Viable Product will use these key concepts from the Multi Channel Data Architecture to build applications described in Carbon Accounting and Certification Working Group:
- Access data from several permissioned channels.
- Use standard model-factors to calculate emissions from the data.
- Record the emissions results on a permissioned channel for the next entity to consume.
- Minimalist apps which
- run as serverless micro services, for example on Amazon Lambda or Cloud Functions from Google or IBM;
- pass through customer authentication keys to the permissioned channels
In each process, it will simulate the roles of:
- Data source, which provides product use data
- CO2 emissions auditor, which calculates CO2 emissions from the product use data
- Data consumer, which uses the CO2 emissions data to calculate their own emissions, purchase offsets, etc.
The MVP will allow self-contained carbon emissions calculators for different purposes, as well as simulate how carbon emissions data could be shared across a supply chain with multiple parties.
Potential data sources include:
- Utility bills
- Shipping data
- Travel data
- Vehicle trip data
- Renewable Energy Certificates
- Carbon offsets
By combining these data sources together, we could build many different types of carbon emissions calculators fairly easily, including:
- Virtual Community Renewable Energy Network
- Vehicle Travel Offsets
- Personal Carbon Offsets
- Data Center Carbon Calculator
There are probably a lot of other examples, so feel free to add more ideas here!