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The Opportunity Statement
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How might we share climate data in a way that drives positive behavioural change at an individual and or community level?
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The Problem
At present the collective consumption of energy and emission of GHGs from within the campus, significantly contributes to one of the greatest challenges the world is currently facing on Climate Change.
A strategic approach would be to bring ANU community onboard - Increasing awareness on the issue & giving visibility through realtime, relevant insights could facilitate individuals & communities to drive positive & sustainable green behaviours.
However, the ongoing challenge is the way the data is currently distributed across multiple sources, often in silo that require manual extraction. Much of this is historic & single event focused but when collected intelligently can be valuable in facilitating decisions for students & staff.
The Solution
Interactive Touchscreen Kiosk
Placed in several areas in each of the ANU lobbies to provide real-time climate data information to university students & staff.
Proposed solution is aimed at benefiting from the publicly available weather data (& predictive analysis) to educate & motivate people to enable & support change.
By utilising IoT temperature, humidity, soil moisture sensors the solution gathers raw data into state-of-the-art Azure IoT Hub.
Data is then presented onto a cool and insightful Dashboard powered by Microsoft’s PowerBI visualisations to provide valuable insights at the touch of your fingertips.
Our future intention is to open up the data in some form of OpenAPI to allow students to consume it and derive meaningful insights, amongst other datasets.
Power BI
Visualising change
The Impact
Keeping Students Informed & Engaged
Aimed at keeping the ANU community informed & engaged with relevant & real-time insights on weather climate changes.
Facilitating Ongoing Conversation
Allows individuals and like-minded groups to have an open conversation to collectively take steps to create the positive change, that benefits everyone both within ANU and the region.
Helping with Continuous Improvement
Measure their progress towards their own or campus level goals, with real time updates on trends and continuously identify areas that need effort to be made.
Solution Architecture
By utilising IoT temperature, humidity, soil moisture sensors we can log raw data into Azure’s IoT Hub.
Microsoft’s PowerBI is used to visualise that data that has been collected and present that data into a Dashboard.
Our future intention is to open up the data in some form of OpenAPI to allow students to consume it and derive meaningful insights, amongst other datasets.
