Team Name:
Gaia
Team Members:
Gaia
When dealing with green resources, a large majority of the population are blind to the average daily usage. Many households around Australia waste power and water on a daily basis. Gaia, an interactive phone app, allows the average person to not only record and monitor their daily resource expenditure, but also receive rewards for staying under average household consumption using a points scheme.
This multipurpose app aims to allow anybody to access a range of important information. This is not only limited to the water and energy usage goals, but also air quality data and information on government grants and rebates throughout the state of Queensland. In conjunction with the UnityWater fleet, pollution sensors be attached to vehicles to monitor air quality levels throughout Queensland, providing data on PM10, PM2.5 and CO2 levels and flagging whenever it is unsafe to spend long periods of time in many areas. Through these processes we hope to be able to impact the ESG initiatives in a positive manner.
Goals:
Increase awareness in water and electricity use throughout Queensland and incentivize them to be lowered
Monitor air quality levels throughout Queensland to supplement necessary data in many regions
Health awareness and long term safety
Public participation in all related events
Roadblocks:
Potential lack of user participation
lack of partners willing to sponsor the project
Equipment and application bugs and errors
Recommendations:
The plan to add sensors to the UnityWater vehicles should be expanded to council vehicles, AusPost vehicles, and the vehicles of partnered businesses.
The app could be expanded to include other utilities such as garbage bins.
The app could include new data from the UnityWater vehicles tracking air quality so it's easy to see the air quality around the user's location.
Tools used:
App design: proto.io
Video: powtoon.com
Video narration (AI text-to-speech): NaturalReader
AI assistance for developing the app and processing data: ChatGPT 3.5
Data processing & visualisation: MATLAB
Location data: Google maps API
Logo design: Adobe Free Online Photo Editor
Most people go through their lives never bothering to understand how and why their house uses resources. Water comes out of a tap and the power is supplied by a power point. Air is healthy and the government rebates appear an age away.
Gaia aims to draw attention to these seemingly unnecessary details, and in doing so save water and power, help emphasize hazardous areas, and raise awareness of government efforts to support the community.
When users of Gaia meets daily usage objects or participate in environmentally friendly activities they will gain SustainaPoints, useful for discounts in local businesses and water and power bill cash backs.
Description of Use Used in the app 'Gaia' for users to be able to compare their own location's energy usage to other places around Queensland.
Description of Use Used to plot the energy usage data onto a map.
Description of Use Used to inform users of 'Gaia' about the air quality around them, and also used to highlight the lack of air quality data around Queensland, which could be improved by our UnityWater vehicle proposal.
Description of Use Used to illustrate how UnityWater vehicles may be used to gather frequent data on air quality around local areas.
Eligibility: Must use a least one Australian relevant dataset - combining datasets preferred.
Go to Challenge | 33 teams have entered this challenge.
Eligibility: Open to everyone, preference will be given to those providing solutions using at least one local Moreton Bay region (City of Moreton Bay and/or Unity Water) data set. Employees of City of Moreton Bay with a direct working relationship with members of the local Moreton Bay Gov Hack node organising committee are ineligible to apply for this prize. If unsure, please feel welcome to check and discuss via Slack channels upon commencement of the event.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Eligibility: Must use the Unitywater dataset. Must use at least one other dataset. Preference will be given to those providing solutions relevant to the following local Council regions: City of Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast Council, Noosa Council.
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Eligibility: Ethical use of a generative AI in your project and at least one Australian or New Zealand data set.
Go to Challenge | 29 teams have entered this challenge.
