Carbon footprint measurement using a mobile app integrated with IoT technology

Abstract

It is known that global warming and the carbon footprint are directly proportional, that is, the more carbon footprint there is, the more global warming there will be, for this reason it was decided to take this environmental problem and calculate the carbon footprint of the engineering faculty of the Sinú University, in this way, the university can know the CO2 emission that is emitted in the faculty and in this way be able to take actions regarding the mitigation of these emissions. For this, a mobile application was developed with the Dart development language, this application can perform manual calculations of the carbon footprint, and a real-time calculation was implemented through a sensor that is connected to an Arduino, this Sensor can measure the electrical flow of a device and sends the information to an IoT server. Knowing the electric flux, the carbon footprint can be calculated. The application allows to control emissions, and organizes this information by means of graphs, and in this way the user can have a better understanding of the stored information.