Save Money Energy and Environment With Light Bulb Finder Application

The Light Bulb Finder app makes it easy to find the right energy-saving light bulbs for your home, one of the ways to save money and reduce the environmental impact.
Choose which bulbs to replace based on financial payback and environmental impact. Buy CFLs directly from your mobile phone or at local retailers.
Users can purchase recommended bulbs directly from application or use their shopping cart to shop at local retailers.
Business Challenge:
1. To intelligently recommend the right replacement options for CFL fixtures based on the existing bulb and fixture details.
2. Preloading of fixture details as part of application binary to facilitate offline functionality.
3. Maintaining an itemized shopping cart on device till the final order is confirmed.
4. User friendly screens using custom gallery control to facilitate the right selection of fixture and bulb style.
5. Providing annual saving and lifetime saving details based on recommendations and linking it to the electricity cost and daily usage.
6. Optimal memory footprint to support smaller android QVGA devices.
7. Support for multiple screen resolutions and orientation mode (android only).
8. Post user's eco savings to Facebook wall and update user's status.
Benefits:
1. The application makes it easy to find the right energy-saving light bulbs for home or office.
2. Online ordering of fixtures right on the mobile device.
3. Optimizing the Carbon Footprint and facilitates optimization of energy consumption.
Software Solution:
1. Input Bulb Details: User can input existing bulb details like fixture, style, base and wattage. User can also input usage pattern like no of hours bulb used per day and no of bulbs having same specs.
2. Recommended Bulb: Details about recommended bulb along with saving details, payback years and bulb cost are given.
3. Settings: User can change zip code and electricity cost which are important parameters to calculate savings.
4. Shopping List: User can create his own customized shopping cart which will be saved on device. Once user purchases these items, the shopping cart will be cleared from device.
5. Purchase: User details required for online shopping like shipping/billing address, contact details and credit card details can be obtained.