Relay Server Mediates Carbon Credit Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals who reduce carbon emissions through non-carbon emitting transportation methods, such as biking or walking, do not receive appropriate compensation, hindering efforts to promote widespread carbon footprint reduction.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a relay server that obtains certification data for carbon reduction events, providing users with contracting company points that can be exchanged for guaranteed payments, allowing users to receive compensation for their carbon footprint reductions, and enabling contracting companies to obtain carbon credits at a lower price.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-generated harmful factors
If individual users perform carbon reduction activities (walking, biking, scooter use), then carbon emission is reduced, but appropriate compensation is not given
Solution Approach 1:
The relay server acts as an intermediary between individual users and contracting companies. It collects certification data from users, converts it to carbon credits, and facilitates exchange with contracting companies that provide compensation. This mediator enables the compensation flow that was previously missing in the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where user carbon reduction activities are measured, certified, converted to carbon credits, and rewarded with compensation from contracting companies. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures that individual efforts are recognized and compensated, encouraging continued carbon reduction behavior.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If contracting companies purchase carbon credits at current market prices, then they can offset carbon emissions, but the cost is higher than necessary
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary conversion of user carbon reduction activities into carbon credits before they reach the contracting companies. By pre-converting and validating the carbon credits through the relay server, the system enables companies to purchase at discounted rates rather than full market price, as the credits are already prepared and verified.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a replicated value chain where user carbon reduction actions are converted into standardized carbon credit units that can be traded. This copying and standardization process allows for efficient aggregation and distribution of carbon credits to multiple companies at reduced costs compared to direct purchasing.
3Quantity of substance
If a system is established to convert user carbon reduction to carbon credits, then compensation can be provided, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The relay server is designed as a multi-functional platform that handles data collection from diverse users, validation of carbon reduction activities, conversion to carbon credits, and distribution to various contracting companies. This universal system handles multiple functions through a single integrated structure, avoiding the need for separate specialized systems for each function.
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AI summary
A relay server includes a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor executing the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: obtain a certification data for a carbon reduction event performed by a user and provide a contracting company point-obtaining right to the user; exchange the contracting company point-obtaining right with a contracting company point payment-guaranteed by a contracting company; and provide the certification data or a revenue generated based on the certification data to the contracting company in pesponse to a guarantee of the contracting company for a user's use of the contracting company point.