A plugin which can estmate carbon released by web traffic

Prize category

Best Contribution

Overview

We propose to build a visual plugin that allows web users to show emissions generated during web page usage.

On the one hand, it can provide users with a clear and quantifiable understanding of carbon emissions;
On the other hand, we hope to provide optimization and data input to the e-net during the development process;

Questions to be answered

No response

Have you got a project team yet?

Yes and we aren't recruiting

Project team

https://github.com/ziJinChampion https://github.com/lyxHanHan

Terms of Participation

[X] I agree to the hackathon Rules & Terms and Code of Conduct

Project Submission

Summary

A Google plug-in that contains the following features：

Utilizing the ENet model;
Carbon emissions generated by network resource transmission；
Real-time acquisition, duration: 1hour;

Problem

It can provide users with a clear and quantifiable understanding of carbon emissions

Application

More intuitively show users the carbon emissions generated by actual network operations, enhancing environmental awareness

Prize category

Best Contribution

Judging Criteria

Overall Impact：Establishing a connection between online behavior and carbon emissions enables users to clearly perceive, and consciousness is the driver of action；
Innovation and Creativity：Real time acquisition of network transmission data, coupled with Google plugin for the first time, convenient for users to use；
User Experience：Intuitive user interface and simple operation；

Video

Youtube link

Artefacts

GitHub address

Usage

Process

Build a project
Choose the appropriate mode
Obtain network transmission data
Building Google plugins

Inspiration

Energy conservation and emission reduction are about protecting our own homes. We are willing to do what we can on green software, hoping that a single spark can start a prairie fire.

Challenges

Obtain network transmission data；

Accomplishments

The first work to focus on green software;
The first Google plugin;

Learnings

Obtain network transmission data；
The development of Google plugins;

What's next?

Improve the accuracy of data obtained through network transmission

Good luck @lyxHanHan!

Quick question you used the term "visual plugin" if you are looking to help build a tool to help visualize the output of an impact framework computation (load a manifest file and visualize the outputs) I wouldn't recommend writing that as a plugin I would simply run IF, take the output file and load it into the application you build which visualises the results. That type of submission would fall under best contribution.

You might also want to take a look at the co2js plugin for inspiration: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/if-unofficial-plugins/blob/main/src/lib/co2js/README.md

I'm just thinking how I might combine it all together, perhaps a plugin that loads a website, figures out the network traffic in loading the website, pass that information to the co2js plugin and then something that visualizes the result of that.

tree:
  pipeline:
    - website-loader
    - co2js
  config:
    website-loader:
      website: https://greensoftware.foundation
  inputs: null

A website loader plugin might load the website that you have configured, and output a single observation, timestamp, duration and the number of bytes the website downloaded.
That observation you could pass to the existing co2js plugin which computes the carbon for that number of bytes.
The output yml file you could pass to a visualization tool to visualize it in a nice way.

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