Smartphone App Design for Product Use Sustainability Evaluation

High quality, accessible data is critical for intelligent sustainable manufacturing and live data related to the product use stage enables informed real-time decision making. Existing smartphone use stage data collection tools lack a focus on sustainability, convenience, and personalized feedback to the user. This study presents the design of a custom Android app which can collect battery usage, power consumption, and emissions data from personal electronic devices to influence sustainable product use as well as improve designs of future iterations of the product. Initial tests of the app demonstrate the ability to integrate the desired capabilities into a single platform by gathering data relevant to data-driven sustainable manufacturing and displaying it to users in real time. Future work to improve the app for versatality and other platforms are also discussed.