Remote monitoring and diagnostic solution for Li-ion battery health

DIAGNOSE is a remote monitoring and diagnostics solution that gives real-time facts and statistics on large Li-ion battery health and performance, allowing companies to prevent potential safety issues and plan maintenance or replacement. Battery life could be extended by adjusting the usage profile based on diagnostics data. The innovation gives an instant overview of a whole battery fleet with historic data viewing, automatic event notifications and alerts as well as customized warranty monitoring. The innovation provides a sort of ”Digital Passport" from cell manufacturing through life of the battery to the second life after having been recycled.

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Heat capture of excess renewable energy generation to avoid oversupply

Polar Night Energy (PNE) combines electricity and heat capture to enable an accelerated development of wind and solar energy. PNE has developed a cost-efficient, safe, and scalable heat storage solution. It is based on an underground sand pit, heated up to 700 degrees Celsius with excess wind or solar power. Heat is provided for buildings and industry via a patented and optimized heat transfer system. Wind and solar power have the disadvantage of being intermittent, resulting in wind turbines being shut down when the electricity prices drop too low due to oversupply. Converting this excess energy to heat offers a cost-efficient and safe way to store the energy for long durations.

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Biogas-powered car leasing business

Biogas-powered wrote: Our target audience are big companies and individuals. Our solution is to lease the bio-cars to them instead of encouraging them into buying it. This will reduce their risk of changing type of cars, as they do not have to commit too much into something so new. We will talk to real estate companies and offer them bio-cars leasing service. This will free up more parking space in the residential area and add more values to their premises. To individual, we lease the car to them and they have the choice to use it or rent it to other people when their bio-cars are not in use. This increases the efficiency of the bio-cars and give people the opportunity for a one-man business, which is economically beneficial for them... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Get money from waste

WasteMerchant wrote: Wastemerchant is a digital platform that incentivizes sorting of household/institutional waste by creating a trading platform of such sorted waste. By streamlining such operations in the growing complexities of urban spaces and combined with technological solutions, our platform reduces the costs for governments/municipalities for waste treatment. Our solution promotes sorting which leads to more recycling and reuse and less to landfill and incineration. And fosters a positive environmental impact... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Smart contracting platform

Monkeybox wrote: We will revolutionize the electricity market. Monkeybox is a blockchain-based smart contracting platform to enable trading directly between electricity producers and consumers, big or small. With our efficient way of electricity contracting producers gain more money and consumers pay less for electricity. Our aim is to provide cheap, local and environmental-friendly energy for anyone to buy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Toilets that seperate and collect urine

Urbantransitioners wrote: We partner with low-income communities like keko machungwa in dar es salaam to build toilets that separate urine. We then collect the urine and sell it as fertilizer to large scale farmers, subsistence farmers and gardeners. With our solution we help farmers to fertilize, irrigate and repel their crops. We also tackle the challenge of water scarcity, work for affordable sanitation and promote health and hygiene. . Our goal is that by the end of 2017 we have five farmers as early adopters using urine on their crops. Secondly, because we want to see dar es salaam as a lush and green city, we will built 10 000 toilets in dar es salaam by 2027. Ultimately, we aim to dry sanitize dar es salaam and make it an example worldwide... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Transitioning businesses to net positive

Naava wrote: Naava provides tools, training and consulting to help businesses thrive in an uncertain future. Through a combination of systems thinking, design thinking and good old fashion bottom line analysis, we help businesses do less harm and begin taking advantage of the new business opportunities sustainability brings. Business as usual is changing, as evidenced by international frameworks like the un sustainable development goals and the paris agreement. With an innovative customer engagement methodology and unique expertise in the relationship between sustainability and business, naava aims to help accelerate the shift to a more sustainable way of doing business... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Shared cargo bicycles in urban areas

CargoWheelz wrote: In dense populated cities people face a major problem, when they need to transport something bigger in shorter distance. Driving in city areas is difficult because of the traffic and parking. Also. Owning a car is expensive and doesn't fit to sustainable lifestyle, which is a big trend at the moment. Cargowheelz solves this problem by offering easily accessible shared cargo bikes in urban areas, where the ride fee is based on the used time. With our cargo bikes you are able to transport items freely and independently. In addition it's social and a lot of fun - get the bike and take your kids for a nice leisure day trip. We make your urban life without a car more convenient and affordable, and offer you new experiences. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Make textile waste biodegradable

Temu Materials wrote: We aim to reduce the burden caused by the fashion industry by degrading textile waste with the help of mushrooms. We will then produce materials, mainly leather, from the mushrooms which we will then sell forwards to our customers. Our goal is to form long lasting relationships with customers in such a way that we take their unneeded textiles and provide them with a better option... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Offgrid sawmilling

Pikotech wrote: Pikotech offers affordable and efficient sawmilling and bioenergy solutions for remote pine forest owners in developing countries. Our beachhead markets are in rural areas of tanzania and nepal where there is development aid supported pine plantations in the community land and where people do not have access to reliable electricity. We have picked these markets as there are existing capacity building projects, we have strong personal networks and team members who have experience in working in these areas. Our solution is modified to work in local context by taking off extra high-tech functions and modifying component structure to enable local maintainability... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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