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Vadim Aniskin · Oct 3, 2022

Hey Community!

Especially for the 1st InterSystems Idea-A-Thon, we've prepared a special promo video for our Ideas portal:

➡️ Welcome to the InterSystems Ideas

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Don't forget to submit your ideas until October 16 to join our Idea-Thon ;)

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Vadim Aniskin · Jul 8, 2022

Hi everyone!

I’m happy to see that corporation where I worked for 12 years is really care about problem of climate change.

Now I’m studying in the University and my major is close to climate change topic. That’s why I want to add my 2 cents and share my opinion which applications done be developers could help with climate change issue.

First, I want to say that analysis of UN, World Bank and other organizations data related to climate change in my opinion will not change anything, just give information that “something is happening”.

But developers can make a real positive change in this area implementing applications which help decrease energy consumption. Because largest part of global warming is related to warming produced during energy production in energy production plants from non-renewable energy sources like coal, oil products, gas. That’s why in my point of view all applications which help to decrease warming which is produced during energy production or decrease energy consumption are helpful.

For health industry related applications examples are:

  • Telemedicine
  • Hospitalization planning applications
  • …

And all others which minimize patients travel especially for large distance to minimize petrol consumption by cars and planes, and electricity for trains and metro.

Non-industry related applications like:

  • Distant learning and certification
  • Teleconference
  • Applications which support remote work for workgroups

And others – for the same reason: minimization energy consumption for travel.

Health trackers which motivate people to use feet and bicycle for short term travel and don’t use cars.

Food production and consumption is energy intensive process as well. It looks small for one person, but for billions of people it is huge. Dietary related applications which help to decrease losses of products on each stage of production, delivery chain and consumption, decrease meat consumption and use more balanced diet, because meat production requires is at least 10 time more energy compared to vegetable proteins.

Smart City applications which optimize energy consumption on city level. It includes traffic monitoring and control to minimize traffic jams (decreasing petrol and electricity consumption), and motivates people to use public transport which decreases further energy consumption.

Smart Home applications which help to optimize energy consumption on level of house.

Applications which help people to use right way to recycle old electric and electronic equipment, especially fridges and freezers. Old fridges and freezers contain old standard refrigerating medium, which are 1000 times more dangerous for ozone layer and climate change compared to carbon dioxide.

I hope this text will help developers to understand that small and ordinary applications which they implement now could really help to solve global important problem of climate change.

Good luck in the Contest!