Clean Web Hackathon NYC
Projects
Audit Trigger
Submitted
We're creating a tool for multifamily buildings that will determine whether or not a property requires an energy audit with minimum information input.
The data inputs will be basic property information and total energy costs for each fuel type. Using average energy rates on a state-by-state basi... Read More
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Auto Power Saver
Submitted
Power Saving App.
Based on your current geolocation, the mobile web app will determine to power On/down your connected appliances.
This is a mobile web app.
Optimized for iPhone's Safari Browser usage.
The connected appliances for this app to toggle its ON/OFF switch is physically locate... Read More
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eMotivator
Submitted
eMotivator is a portal where individuals are motivated to reduce their electricity consumption and are rewarded for that. As for pilot and proof of concept we use electricity data only but it has to be expanded to water, gas, oil etc. We are all for Greener Planet.
Technology:
- Tendril API a... Read More
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NYC Municipal Building Faceoff
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We have a data set of energy usage for New York City municipal buildings by block and lot. Our idea is to create a simple interface where a user can input an address and get back the closest municipal buildings ranked by energy usage and green house gasses.
Our data set is available for download... Read More
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Green Carrot
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Problem:
Many households do not fully understand their current energy usage, and are unaware of ways to improve their energy consumption habits.
Solution:
Create a fun and visually compelling way to compare your energy habits with your friends, as well as provide a checklist of ... Read More
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Mosaic Map: Occupy Rooftops
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For the Hackathon, Solar Mosaic (SM) is creating a web app that presents real-time activity in the solar sphere using google maps API and twitter features. When anyone tweets about a solar project (denoted by, ex. #solar or @solarmosaic), their location drops onto the Google Map, and their tweet sho... Read More
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Carbon Fingerprint
In Progress
Carbon Fingerprint is tool used to track and tether carbon use to users' online identities. Users can compare their carbon fingerprints with friends, geographies, demographics, past use, etc.
Ideally, we would build a bare-bones read/write API that tracks one kind of carbon-output (I'm voting f... Read More
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Commuter Payback
In Progress
General idea:
- Google Maps/Brighter Planet API/cars.com (?) mashup that looks like hootroot
- You enter origin and destination of your commute and also your current car
- We show you 5 cars for sale that are more fuel-effic... Read More
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Web Enabled Electric SubMeter
In Progress
project to collect energy consumption meterer that will output info to the webpage or mobile app. Data will be shown outlet by outlet so you can investigate what uses most of the energy. Additionally data can be linked to price lookups to see what is actual cost of that energy (from one or different... Read More
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Trip Watchers
In Progress
It's like Weight Watchers for Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). Trip Watchers provides tools to track vehicle usage and a community to reduce Single Occupancy Vehicle trips.
Problem/Opportunity: The average American household spends almost 20% of their income on vehicle related expenses, yet most car... Read More
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EnergyGPA
In Progress
We are looking to build a singular web app that will compile residential and commercial energy consumption into a singular usage/sqft metric. This metric will be the EnergyGPA.
On a micro level, this app will be used to compete against specific neighbors (see 'Tidy Street' in Brighton), your so... Read More
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Automagic Wireless Thermostat
In Progress
We plan to modify the EnergyHub Mercury wireless thermostat to automatically use an energy-saving "away mode" based on the location of residents' smart phones.
We're hacking on the Java backend to enable the service, and on our existing simple Android thermostat control app.
We also have wifi ... Read More
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CSRCred
In Progress
Companies release reports and press releases all the time, that tout their sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance. Are they credible? Should we listen to them?
Using the CSRHub API, we could examine a report such as the one Apple recently released on its supply chain... Read More
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Econofy E-Star
In Progress
A rating system for the energy efficiency of appliances and other products. Visualizes the energy efficiency of any product, compared to other similar products, so users can comparison shop for the most efficient products.
Users can then compare the prospective energy bill of new appliances to t... Read More
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SolarList: kayak for solar
In Progress
People will go solar, as long as it isn't a pain in the ass
The data is convincing, whether for reasons of climate change, energy security, pollution or just to show off, 9 out of 10 people support going solar. But there are two big caveats:
a) It has to ... Read More
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Watt Quiz
In Progress
A simple social quiz, a la freerice.com, that asks you questions and educates you about your energy. Correct answers generate watts that are donated to worthy charities.
Primarily driven by Green Button data, but using a host of APIs and datasets to drive the questions and visualization.
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