Technology for the Environment

Use of Online And Mobile System For Environment

ConservationComputer Science and Engineering

Introduction

One of the greatest technological developments in modern history is the origination of the Internet.

Some examples include online reservations for trains, airplanes, and other modes of transportation, online movies, matches, concert tickets, etc.

Technology enables us to prevent further degradation of the environment. Thus by using the internet we can adopt an eco-friendly approach to our life!

How it works!!!

Online and Mobile Systems work by using “interconnected networks”, or internet.

The Internet can be accessed almost anywhere by numerous means, including through mobile Internet devices.

By using these online systems, we can save approximately $400 billion dollars in our country, which is about ¼ the size of the national GDP!

Online Reservations

Internet and mobile reservation is a process by which we can book railways, airlines, bus tickets online.

A lot of paper, money, time, fuel etc can be saved!

Some sites offer online and mobile reservation:

Irctc.co.in, yatra.com, ngpay.com, travelguru.com etc. Blue = online reservation

Green = personal reservation

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Calculations Regarding Online Reservation

Total no of passenger in India per year : 1 billion

Total distance travelled by passengers (10 km/yr/passenger): 10 billion km

Total fuel consumed and saved (taking vehicle average 50km/l): 2000 millions lit of petrol

Total CO2 emission saved = 4000 million kg

Total paper saved (2g/passenger): 2000 tons (1 ton=1000 kg)

Total trees saved(30 trees/ton): 60,000 trees per year

Rush At Resevation Counter

Queue For Match Ticket

Online and Mobile Tickets

We can save a lot of time and resources by purchasing tickets online.

Sites that offer online movie and match ticket:

Ngpay.com, onlinemovieticket.com, bookmyshow.com, f1gpt.com, fifa.com etc.

Calculations Regarding Online Tickets

Total no of movie, match and concert viewers in India: 250 million

Total no of times a viewer goes for movies match and concert in a year: 10

Total paper saved (1g/viewer/show): 25,000 tons (1 ton=1000 kg)

Total trees saved (30 trees/ton): 750,000 trees per year

Online Shopping Online shopping is the process whereby consumers

directly buy goods or services from a seller in real-time, without an intermediary service, over the Internet.

It is a form of electronic commerce.

When a business buys from another business it is called Business-to-Business (B2B) online shopping.

When a consumer buys from a business it is called Business-to-Consumer (B2C) online shopping.

Sites that offer online and mobile shopping:

Ebay.com, flipkart.com, yabhi.com, ngpay.com etc.

Calculations Regarding Online Shopping

Total no of passenger in India per year : 1 billion

Total distance travelled by passengers (10 km/yr/passenger): 10 billion km

Total fuel consumed and saved (taking vehicle average 50km/l): 2000 millions lit of petrol

Total CO2 emission saved = 4000 million kg

Total paper saved (2g/passenger): 2000 tons (1 ton=1000 kg)

Total trees saved(30 trees/ton): 60,000 trees per year

Traffic rate in India

TRAFFIC JAMS IN INDIA

E-Cards

E-cards are a viable and eco-friendly alternative to hard copy greeting cards.

Also a lot of fuel is saved which is required to transport the greetings cards and hence also reduces carbon emissions.

Sites like 123greetings.com help us send free e-cards for every occasion!

Calculations Regarding E-Cards

Total no of greeting cards sold last year in India: 60 millions

Total paper (20g/greeting card): 1200 tons

Total trees saved (30 trees/ton): 36,000 trees per year

Online and Mobile Voting

In this the voter can vote by just logging into his id in the voting website and casting his vote.

It makes conducting homeowners and other association elections fast, easy and affordable.

It saves time, money and also a lot of resources and can easily handle multiple elections at a time.

There would be no paper ballots and dublicacy and hence the elections will also be more fare and reliable.

Calculations Regarding Online Voting

Total no of voters in India: 400 millions

Total no of times voting occurs in 1 year: 1

Total distance travelled by voters (10 km/voters): 4000 million km

Total fuel consumed and saved (taking vehicle average 50km/l): 80 millions lit of petrol

Total CO2 emission saved = 160 million kg

Total paper saved (2g/voter): 800 tons (1 ton=1000 kg)

Total trees saved (30 trees/ton): 24,000 trees per year

Electronic Certificates

E-certificates are a smart solution to reducing the number of trees cut to make certificates.

They have the advantage of permanently being online, which means that they can be accessed from any location in the world, should they be required for something like an interview.

Some companies like Microsoft, Google and exams like SAT give online certificates.

Calculations Regarding E-Certificates

Total no of students in India (graduate+school): 200 millions

Total no Certificates received by a student in 1 year: 3

Total paper saved (20g/certificate): 12,000 tons

Total trees saved (30 trees/ton): 360,000 trees per year

Videoconferencing Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference

by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously.

It has also been called 'visual collaboration' and is a type of groupware.

It saves a lot of time , fuel and money as we can do meeting by staying at home or office itself.

Sites offering videoconferencing facility:

Skype.com, google.com/talk, facebook.com etc.

Calculations Regarding Videoconferencing

Total no of corporate (registered companies) in India: 916,000

Total no of meetings in 1 year: 12

Total no of people participating in meeting: 25

Total distance travelled (10km/per/meeting): 229 million km

Total fuel saved(taking car average 20km/l): 11.5 million lil of petrol

Total CO2 emission saved: 23 million kg

VIRTUAL EDUCATION

Virtual education refers to instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student can interact via technologies such as course management applications, multimedia resources, the internet, and videoconferencing.

It would save a lot of resources and time of both teachers and students.

It would help students grasp the concepts more easily.

Websites which offers virtual education: sparknotes.com, mit.com/ocw etc.

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Total no of students in India: 150 millions

Total distance travelled by student (10km/student) in a year: 54,750 millions km

Total fuel saved (taking average 200km/l/student as students use public tranport): 273.75 million lil of petrol

Total CO2 emission saved: 547.5 million kg

No of notebook used by a student in 1 year : 5

Total paper saved (200g/notebook): 150,000 tons

Total trees saved (30trees/ton): 4,500,000 trees

Calculations Regarding Virtual Classroom

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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet.

How it helps environment:

It improves the system efficiency so electric consumption is reduced and less number of systems are needed.

Cloud computing helps in social connect.

By using the cloud computing concept a person can work from home. This saves on fuel and infrastructure.

Big enterprises can save up to 30% of the carbon emission and small enterprises can save up to 90% of carbon emission, if they use cloud computing.

Cloud computing saves 30-40% of the revenue required.

facebook.com, Microsoft azure and Google use cloud computing.

Bibliography

Information was collected from various sites such as:

www.wikipedia.com(for all general information)

irctc.co.in (for online reservations)

indianrailways.gov.in (for no passengers in a year)

Microsoft.com (for cloud computing)

www.education.nic.in (for getting no of graduates and students)

www.mca.gov.in (for no of corporate in India)

Conclusion

This project was made as a conscious effort to sensitize people, of the environmental damage that can be prevented, if we use computers and online and mobile system. There are a lot of other online system like e-newspaper, e-bussiness, e-mail, and lot more.

If we adopt the online and mobile system, we can save a lot of resources, money and time.

Thank You!

"Whoever saves one life saves the world."

So lets take an pledge to save environment by adopting

ONLINE AND MOBILE SYSTEM