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| | | | | | | Tracking your carbon footprint
25 February 2008
| CarbonDiem, a personal carbon calculator that won the Prague/Czech Republic regional prize in the European Satellite Navigation 2007 Competition, sponsored by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme. It uses satellite navigation data to track distance and method of travel every time a journey is made, calculates the generation of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a result of the travel and displays the data on a mobile phone giving details of the carbon footprint. Travellers can then easier optimise their travel method to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
Credits: ESA, CarbonDiem | |  |  | |
| | | | | CarbonDiem, a personal carbon calculator, consists of a sensor (left) which detects movements by use of satellite navigation data. The carbon footprint is then displayed on a mobile phone (right).
Credits: www.CarbonHero.net | | | | |
| | | | | Andreas Zachariah demonstrates CarbonDiem to Prince Philip at the 2007 Royal College of Art Graduation Degree Show in London.
Credits: Monica Chong | | | | |
| | | | Calculating journeys in carbon terms
| Carbon Hero, a personal carbon calculator that won the Prague/Czech Republic regional prize in the European Satellite Navigation 2007 Competition, sponsored by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme. It uses satellite navigation data to track distance and method of travel every time a journey is made, calculates the generation of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a result of the travel and displays the data on a mobile phone giving details of the carbon footprint. Travellers can then easier optimise their travel method to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
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Credits: www.CarbonHero.net | | | | |
| | | | To be tested in industry
| Andreas Zachariah (left) and Nick Burch (centre) talking to interested businessmen at the European Satellite Navigation Competition’s Galileo Masters 2007 award ceremony, during the Munich ITC trade fair SYSTEMS. Zachariah invented Carbon Hero, a mobile-based application to give users their personal environmental carbon dioxide ‘footprint’ when travelling. With almost no user input, Carbon Hero, with its specialist database and algorithm, determines the environmental impact of different forms of transport. Carbon Hero won the Prague/Czech Republic regional prize in the European Satellite Navigation 2007 Competition, sponsored by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | The two regional winners for Prague, Czech Republic, Andreas Zachariah and Nick Burch, at the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2007, sponsored by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme, award ceremony at the Residenz in Munich, 23 October 2007. From the left Emilia Müller, Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, and on the right Thorsten Rudolph, one of the instigators of the European Satellite Navigation Competition and Managing Director for Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen, and Rainer Grohe, former Executive Director of Galileo Joint Undertaking.
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| | Related links Carbon HeroCarbon Hero on YouTubeESA Technology Transfer Programme
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