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"Literature Review on carbon footprint collection and analysis", Robert Brewer

The Personal Environmental Tracker (PET) is a proposed system for helping people to track their impact on the environment via data collected from sensors, and to make changes to reduce that impact, creating a personal feedback loop.

Abstract: The Personal Environmental Tracker (PET) is a proposed system for helping people to track their impact on the environment via data collected from sensors, and to make changes to reduce that impact, creating a personal feedback loop. This document presents a review of the work related to this research program, including: environmental research, economic factors regarding energy efficiency, methods of providing feedback on energy usage, motivating users to change their behavior, suggestions for the design of persuasive environmental systems, a review of related systems, and the calculation of carbon emissions.

Available at: http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/techreports/09-05/09-05.pdf

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