Product lifecycle sustainability score tracking and indicia
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1. A system that facilitates sustainability tracking in connection with a manufactured good, comprising:
- at least one processor coupled to memory retaining instructions carried out by the processor, in operation, for;
a tracking component that, in operation, employs one or more sensors to monitor a state of a manufactured product;
an acquisition component that, in operation, receives a plurality of status updates associated with the state of the manufactured product via the tracking component during a product lifecycle of the manufactured product;
an analysis component that, in operation, determines an impact value to a lifecycle sustainability score associated with the product based upon at least one of the plurality of status updates, wherein the impact value relates to energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy providers, water usage or other resource utilization, emissions, carbon footprint, waste, effluent, worker safety, corporate policy, labor policy, regulatory mandates, or some combination thereof, associated with the product; and
an archival component that, in operation, employs a product ID that pertains to the product to access a data store and to update the lifecycle sustainability score maintained by the data store with the impact value; and
a graphical user interface configured to display the updated lifecycle sustainability score during the product lifecycle in response to receiving an input signal requesting the updated lifecycle sustainability score, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a display coupled to the manufactured product.
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Abstract
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate sustainability monitoring and indicia thereof for a product over the course of the entire lifecycle of the product. In particular, the architecture can acquire a status update associated with a state of the product. Based upon the state, the architecture can determine an impact of that state to a sustainability score associated with the product.
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1. A system that facilitates sustainability tracking in connection with a manufactured good, comprising:
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at least one processor coupled to memory retaining instructions carried out by the processor, in operation, for; a tracking component that, in operation, employs one or more sensors to monitor a state of a manufactured product; an acquisition component that, in operation, receives a plurality of status updates associated with the state of the manufactured product via the tracking component during a product lifecycle of the manufactured product; an analysis component that, in operation, determines an impact value to a lifecycle sustainability score associated with the product based upon at least one of the plurality of status updates, wherein the impact value relates to energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy providers, water usage or other resource utilization, emissions, carbon footprint, waste, effluent, worker safety, corporate policy, labor policy, regulatory mandates, or some combination thereof, associated with the product; and an archival component that, in operation, employs a product ID that pertains to the product to access a data store and to update the lifecycle sustainability score maintained by the data store with the impact value; and a graphical user interface configured to display the updated lifecycle sustainability score during the product lifecycle in response to receiving an input signal requesting the updated lifecycle sustainability score, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a display coupled to the manufactured product. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for facilitating sustainability tracking in connection with use or consumption of a manufactured product comprising:
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employing one or more sensors for monitoring a state of the manufactured product during an entire lifecycle of the manufactured product, wherein the state is monitored with respect to a set of sustainability factors; receiving, via one or more computers, a plurality of status updates associated with the state of the manufactured product; determining, via the one or more computers, an impact to a sustainability score associated with at least one sustainability factor included in the set as a function of the state based on at least one of the plurality of status updates, wherein the impact relates to energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy providers, water usage or other resource utilization, emissions, carbon footprint, waste, effluent, worker safety, corporate policy, labor policy, regulatory mandates, or some combination thereof, associated with the manufactured product; updating, via the one or more computers, the sustainability score based upon the impact; and displaying, via the one or more computers in response to receiving an input signal requesting the updated lifecycle sustainability score, the updated sustainability score on a graphical user interface during the lifecycle of the manufactured product, wherein the graphical user interface is coupled to the manufactured product. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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