WattzOn: Crowdsourcing a Solution to Climate Change

There are today hundreds of innovative tools for personal energy tracking littered across the Internet (e.g. carbon calculators). However, these are often static and therefore do not react to improvement in knowledge or allow for addition of data.

Wattz On is dynamic tool that not only allows the public to track their energy consumption (in watts) and compare it with other individuals but also provides the entire community with a collaborative environment to understand and manipulate how the numbers are calculated. This is all achieved by a back-end database nicknamed “holmz” – a structured wiki-engine that allows people to not only manipulate and share text, but also lets people collectively edit structured data and workflows. As such, crowds can collaborate on getting all the individual parts of the equation correct so that everybody may benefit.