CO2IN – Helping to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Item: Ackee
Author: Václav Vislous

Year: 2022 – 2023

Client: Amper

IntroductionA common mission to save the planet

In the future, we are going to be facing the impacts of climate change more and more often. They are the result of human activity where greenhouse gasses are being released into the atmosphere and are therefore causing the planet to warm up. The Amper group is trying to prevent that with their project CO2IN to reduce carbon footprint and they have chosen us as their partner for sustainable digitalization.

OutputsUX reviewDesigniOS appAndroid appWeb appTesting

CategoryFintech

ChallengeNo app, no allowances

CO2IN is a digital currency whose purchase takes carbon credits from the market which reduces the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. It is only possible to obtain a CO2IN, which is running on a private blockchain, through a mobile application. At the takeover of the project, the app was almost without architecture and the code was not at all up to our standards.

SolutionThe end of technical debt

Taking into consideration the technical state in which the app got to us, it might have seemed easiest to throw everything away and start over from scratch. We went down a more sustainable path – we started by setting up the architecture and we are isolating the new parts of the application from the existing base which we are gradually refactoring.

PraxisSmart purchase, lower emissions

Apart from the possibility of purchase, we implemented functionalities focused on so-called offsetting into the app as well. The users can use a calculator to buy exactly the amount of CO2IN to compensate for the emissions released for example during traveling. They can find further information on the presentation website of the project where we also offered our helping hand and contributed to its development.

"We were looking for a partner who could provide a comprehensive solution for our project. The broad spectrum of skills and active pro-client approach that Ackee has demonstrated in various areas were key for implementing the project."