Technica 2020 mobile app scanner for sustainable women-owned clothing businesses.
Our inspiration for Sustainable She was a collective passion for raising awareness about the environment and empowering women owned businesses.
The Bangladesh clothing factory disaster and similar events around the world have inspired us to take a stand against the fast fashion industry. Fast fashion brands and supply chains create bad working conditions, environmental disasters, and even human tragedy. Despite this, relatively few people are truly conscious of the impact their clothing buying habits have on the world. Sustainable She makes it easy for people at any knowledge level to make an impact for the social good. Our application is a highly scalable and universally accessible method for helping individuals develop sustainable clothing consumption.
Ines Said created a number of environmentally conscious apps at previous hackathons and that inspired us to do the same for this project. Two of us also want to start our own companies and use of this app would lead to growth in female owned businesses by facilitating the rise in popularity of female owned brands. SUCCESS begins with SUPPORTING other women! Cheers.
Learn more about the Sustainable She Idea!
The Sustainable She app enables women to scan clothing brands on storefronts, signs, and tags using AR technology and receive ratings and information about how sustainable that brand is. The app then gives you alternative women owned sustainable fashion brands that you can shop from instead.
- Unity3D - platform for VR/AR environment
- Vuforia - 3D model rendering and image recognition of clothing brand logos
- C# - navigation pages
- Google cloud - sign in authentication
- Firebase - database to store key value pairs of brand names and ratings
We have concrete steps for the future of Sustainable She:
- Implement OCR to convert clothing brand logos to text
- Connect mobile app to Google Firebase to dynamically pull ratings
- Implement web scraping to pull ratings from a reputable site (ex: good on you)
- Add an AR feature that displays better women-owned clothing brand suggestions