Client Overview 

The client is a public health and environmental policy research organization focused on addressing environmental pollution caused by commercial tobacco product waste. The organization works closely with academic institutions and community partners to support policy-driven research initiatives aimed at reducing the environmental and public health impact of tobacco-related pollution. Its efforts emphasize data collection, community engagement, and policy advocacy to drive meaningful environmental change.  

Radiant Digital was engaged as the technology partner to translate these research and policy objectives into a scalable, field-ready digital platform that could support long-term program delivery. 

Challenge 

The client was committed to preventing, reducing, and ultimately eliminating the harmful effects of environmental pollution resulting from commercial tobacco sales and use. This included addressing both indoor environmental issues, such as smoke intrusion in residential settings, and outdoor challenges, including the accumulation of tobacco-related waste in public spaces and local waterways. 

To support ongoing and future policy initiatives, the client needed a reliable way to conduct short-term research projects over multiple years. The key challenge was enabling consistent, scalable data collection while simultaneously educating communities and engaging a wide range of participants, including individuals, organizations, students, researchers, and public agencies.  

They required a structured, research-aligned digital system that could ensure data credibility, repeatability across studies, and ease of participation in real-world field conditions. 

Solution 

Radiant Digital developed a mobile application that enables users to actively participate in environmental research while learning about the toxic legacy of commercial tobacco products. Drawing on its mobile platform and research workflow expertise, Radiant Digital designed the solution to balance scientific rigor with everyday usability, ensuring both community volunteers and formal research groups could contribute reliable data. 

The solution allows users to photograph, map, classify, and count tobacco, electronic cigarette, and cannabis waste found in outdoor environments. Users can share their findings on social media, download collected data, generate reports, and participate in community science initiatives.  

The platform was designed to support both individual contributors and organized groups, providing accessible tools to collect and share meaningful environmental data in support of public health and policy efforts. The architecture was built to support repeatable research cycles and future project expansion. 

Technologies Used 

  • Front-end: Ionic with React
  • Back-end: Strapi 

Outcomes 

The solution delivered a measurable impact by enabling effective community participation and environmental data collection. By combining guided workflows with mobile-first design, the platform improved the consistency and usability of field data capture across participant types. 

  • Guided users in understanding the toxic legacy of commercial tobacco products in outdoor environments
  • Enabled accurate documentation through photographing, mapping, classifying, and counting waste materials
  • Supported data-driven research efforts to inform environmental and public health policy initiatives 

Conclusion 

Radiant Digital successfully deldivered a mobile-first solution that transformed environmental research into a collaborative, community-powered effort. Our consultative delivery approach, scalable architecture design, and focus on research-grade data workflows helped position the platform as a long-term program asset rather than a standalone app.  

By combining education, data collection, and reporting within a single platform, the solution strengthened the client’s ability to support policy initiatives, engage communities, and advance environmental protection goals related to commercial tobacco pollution. The platform is designed to support future research programs, broader community science initiatives, and expanded environmental monitoring use cases, enabling continued scale and long-term value.

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