CODEX App: your automatic carbon footprint calculator
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Hey all,
We at Cascadia Carbon, a carbon neutral company, are launching our first product: CODEX App. Itās an automated personal transport carbon emissions calculator which also generates offsets whenever you use low carbon transport. You will be able to trade, share, and redeem your offsets, add friends, challenge others, and join teams once the app hits the App Store later this month. Till then, tell your friends, sign Up for our live beta, and drive less!
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@CODEX Cool sounding product. How do the carbon offsets work? Do you manually input that you've used low carbon transport?
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@Felix-G itās entirely automatic. We use a CoreML + proprietary SVM neural net to differentiate Modes of Transport. All you need to do is input the year make and model of your vehicle and enable permissions for CODEX.
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@CODEX So you've trained a NN to be able to know car/walking/bike? If so that's really interesting. How did you source the data to train the model?
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@CODEX what level of differentiation does your model go to? Seems like it would be hard to infer if someone was in an electric vehicle vs a big pickup for example
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@Felix-G Weāre using an open source accelerometer dataset.
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@athabaska you need to enter your vehicle info upon login. Itās not THAT good.
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@CODEX Really interesting concept. Is CODEX bearing the cost of the carbon offsets or is the app user?
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@ericvanular We will sell the crowdsourced carbon offsets to generate revenue. If the app takes off, we may be able to return some revenue to our users. You can also pay to offset your flights and driving from within the app directly.
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@CODEX so the eco-friendly actions of the users themselves are the carbon offsets that CODEX is monetizing?
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@georgepratt You got it! We call them āalgorithmically-verified crowdsourced carbon offsetsā, and they will replace renewable energy offsets as soon as renewable energy becomes cheaper than ātraditionalā power generation (expected late 2020) and therefore business as usual.
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This is cool! I'd love to try the app when the real one is out.
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@CODEX How do you compute the baseline? If I go for a leisurely Sunday ride on a bicycle, is that treated as an "offset" the same way as if I ride my bicycle on my weekday commute to and from work?
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@nicwaller All bicycle rides are treated as offsets. If you could have driven but didnāt, thatās āabove and beyond business as usualā the standard a carbon offset must fulfill to be considered valid. The goal is to get less people driving to work, but if we can avoid leisurely Sunday drives in fossil fuel vehicles thatās a win too in our, and our planetās, opinion.
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@Eric-Chaves We know beta testing isnāt for everyone, but a functional proof-of-concept app is currently live (in beta form) on our website. The more users we get, the more leverage we have, and the more investment we can get, which increases our ability to develop the app, and in turn increases the chances of widespread adoption, and multiplies our climate saving power. So please, tell your friends and family about CODEX!
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@CODEX The sentiment behind this is great. You'll likely have to address the issue that @nicwaller raised in that just using zero carbon forms of transport don't necessarily imply that carbon was actually offset. I wonder if you could build a feature into the app where the user can indicate whether their alternative form of transport was going to be generating emissions. What do you think?
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@Eric-Vanular were incorporating this feedback as we speak. Thanks!
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Your app looks very interesting.
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of how it works. An example:
I always cycle everywhere i travel, and always have done. I then join your app and continue this same pattern of behaviour.
Do my cycle rides then get added to your QAC calculation which you can then sell as carbon offsets?
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@mattfr1 check out v20 beta, with updated tracking and more accurate footprint calculations. Weāre getting really close to App Store launch!
