SoilSpy

SoilSpy wrote: Soilspy facilitates farmers to monitor environmental parameters and analyse the concentration of multiple specific nutrients precisely, quickly, cost efficiently, and directly on field. Through optimized fertilization according to the analyzed nutrient levels and therefore needs of the plants, yield can be maximized while minimizing the usage and cost of fertilizer and sustainably reducing the pollution of ground water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Water pollution localization and analysis

EMUT wrote: We develop floating platforms to monitor and analyse water quality of rivers.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Deep insight into green infrastructure

TrustWorth-E wrote: There is interest in green infrastructure investing but investors find it difficult to benchmark, analyze and understand the performance of these assets. We provide business intelligence – data. Analytics. Tools – to green infrastructure investors worldwide. . Data: we have data experts on-the ground in 10 geographic regions. They continuously collect and consolidate vast amount of macro-economic and asset-specific data that can drive returns of green energy investments. Analytics: our team of data scientists, mathematicians and full-stack developers builds an advanced-analytic system to identify from historic data the probabilities, correlations and impact of all likely factors driving returns... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Xylene

Xylene wrote: Importing timber into the eu, us and australian market involves the responsibility for ensuring the legal harvest – where certifications fail, launderers win!. Xylene revolutionises the way wood is offered on the market. A user-friendly tracking and tracing system uses a mobile application to ensure every step of the wood supply chain is documented from the forest to the final product. . With the help of blockchain technology, we offer the utmost confidence in the authenticity of the data, as the ledger is fully transparent, unchangeable and not centrally owned by any organisation. . The information can be monitored and managed by the customer through a connected web-based timber management system... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Regreening deserted fields in Sub-Sahara

Greendesert wrote: In cooperation with professors from the university of bremen and local partners in cameroon, we have developed an entrepreneurial approach to combat desertification in cameroon. Using the revitec technology developed by researchers at the university of bremen, we fill biodegradable bags with various local substrates and seeds and lay them on the affected fields. The bags provide the seedlings with nutrients and sufficiently store water to guarantee sustainable plant growth, even in very dry weather conditions. . . Our aim is to build up a business in cameroon which offers a regreening service to the local communities. This service consists of targeting the respective fields,.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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NachbarStrom

NachbarStrom wrote: Nachbarstrom provides a software plugin for the solar industry to automatically visualize their customers solar potential. We believe that the future of energy is autarchy. To maximize this autarchy we support three cornerstones: 1) the production of solar energy on private rooftops. 2) decentralized storage facilities . 3) electric mobility solution. We enable people to understand their autarchy potential with an ease. Based on ai technology and 2d satellite pictures our service is applicable even without 3d data available... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Create transparency to enable investment

MeetMySources wrote: Consumer brands can only create a business case for investment, in sustainable raw material production practices if they can prove the investment’s positive ecological or social impact to the end consumer. Nowadays „trustmarks“ like brands and certificates are insufficient to establish the required consumer trust in the related impact claims, therefore brands have to provide transparency in form of instantly accessible digital proof points. . Meetmysources is a digital platform which allows consumer brands to directly interact with the raw material producers in their supply chain. Understanding of farmer needs and built-in reward structures allow brands to incentivize and invest into farmers’ sustainable behaviour... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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First class shuttle service

OXO wrote: Employers in metropolitan areas fail to find employees to live within a reasonable distance of their location. Due to the increasing growth of cities, real estate prices are rising. It is hardly possible to find affordable housing in the city area. The result: around 1. 8 million people in germany drive 60 km and more by car every day. . The consequences for the employees: little sleep from getting up early, stress due to traffic jams and almost no time for recreation and family. They spend more than ten hours per week on the road. . Oxo gives people their time back: a first-class shuttle allows to relax, get some private things done or even work productively... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Disrupting social housing challenge

Abundance.HOME wrote: Within the next 30 years a humongous need for new buildings will occur. An estimated population growth up to ~9 billion humans besides an additional worldwide movement of 20% into urban areas. The result will be an increased scarcity which will lead to estimated 1/3 of urban dwellers (1. 6 billion !) who will struggle to secure decent housing by 2025. Only in germany there is an annual need of 80. 000 of social housing units. . Sadly by today, the construction industry is already by far the largest consumer of raw materials on the planet. 35% of global waste is accounted by construction and demolition activities. New approaches are urgently needed. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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vTech

vTech wrote: Sustainable water treatment is one of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century. Freshwater supplies are limited and the treatment of (waste)water requires increasing amounts of energy (water-energy nexus). The present state-of-the-art water treatment technology is membrane treatment. The major hurdle for membrane applications, however, is membrane blocking (fouling) and the challenge of a reliable process control. As a consequence membrane operation (1) requires higher pressure and energy demands, (2) loses productivity, and (3) is limited in a tailored process control... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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