TData

Problem

While researching about Challenge #2, I realised that access to data tends to hold back the carbon emission measurement in the textile indsustry. This is because of a few select companies that hoard the data. Therefore making it inaccessible to the others.

Our Solution:

We build an open source data sharing protocol. Where companies can register, share emission data of the faclilities and buildings under them. Data can be entered by multiple parties. For example, A common problem in the textile industry is lack of knowledge of who some of the suppliers are. With a system like this, companies can begin to see links to their products that was previously known before. This is because each facility can enter emission details, who they supply to and who they source the materials from. This improves transparability and gives business insights.

How it works:

We are making use of the hedera hashgraph as our technology of choice due to the advantages it has over other chains which are: sustainability and trust. We deployed smart contract where data about suppliers, receivers, emission and facilities are stored. We then interact with the smart contract via the node.JS library where we can create and update the data using hedera's gossip protocol.

Current stage and next steps:

For the hackathon, we were able to deploy the smart contract successfully, test in in multiple places, however we were unable to build a front-end for users to visualize. we envision use cases where users (NGOs, researchers, etc) don't have to worry about trusting the source of the data they want to make use of, neither do they have to worry about the cost of access to such data as the cost is relatively cheap.

Tech Used

To make our testing frameworks faster, we made use of Visual Studio Code as our code editor of choice due to the vast extensions that are not available on any other platform.

Built With

• blockchain
• flutter
• hedera
• vscode