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 its own 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
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!