:Thing

:Thing wrote: Business need #1 : optimising operational expenses related to heating. Business need #2 : automated facility management and monitoring that scales. Business need #3 : making business more innovative and environmentally friendly. State-of-the-art solutions: training for janitors to manually operate on analogue tvrs. Fully fledged, enterprise grade systems (training and infrastructure required). Smart home systems (good for small scale only, poorly handle short term rentals). Our solution: iot-enabled radiator valves that can be controlled via a mobile-app and integrated with hotel management systems. With the data obtained from hotel management systems, it can optimise heating expenses while ensuring optimal end-user experience ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

"Acoperisul Verde" - Green Roof

Green Roof wrote: Our solution is the green roof technical system for rooftops. It is used on a large scale for many years in europe and usa but unknown in romania even for professionals. There are seven million square meters of rooftops only in bucharest, black tar rooftops unused, heating at 80c in summer, creating a heat island effect with immense implications. We already implemented a proof of concept in bucharest on three distinct places, with seven experimental areas, an experiment unique in romania... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Romania

"NIDO"

"NIDO" wrote: Millennials are in need of living accommodations that better suite their lifestyle- small footprint housing that has the ability to grow as their needs grow, and move where they move. Current apartments and houses don’t offer that freedom, forcing people to rent and spend more money in the long-term, or to buy and be tied down to specific place and size. We plan to tackle this problem by changing the way housing is perceived. We offer studio type housing units, which at first are placed in multi-storey racks. The individual units are made to be taken out when needed, moved to a different rack or freestanding location and to be expanded with additional different application units... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Latvia

@2

@2 wrote: The number of road vehicles is growing unstoppable every year, as result, the big cities suffer from the increasing emission of carbon dioxide. We are planning to add a modern module on public surface transport of the cities. The main technology of the module can convert carbon dioxide to other compounds as well as generate electrical energy which could be used in a more valuable way. Our beach-market is vilnius, the biggest city of lithuania. There traffic jumps are a big issue, thus, while the public transport usually stops in them, they can clean the air in the urban locations where the need is the strongest one... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

#Geneveuxplusdautos

#Geneveuxplusdautos wrote: To work towards reducing co2 emissions in geneva our proposition is to provide a radical yet digestible weekly event. Our proposition is to create car-free zones every wednesday (when kids under 16 leave school at noon) in selected areas. Markets would take place on closed streets, the cars having been moved to ideally centralized parking locations. The public transport system would be free or provide promotions, especially for those directly affected by the ‘event’. To compensate, businesses will be encouraged to let those who can, work from home on wednesday and experience a carless day. The objective is to incite social change in habits and values by creating the opportunity for individuals and families to experience new routines... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Switzerland

2°- Climate data

2° wrote: Our solution would allow individuals to track and search the brands they use and better understand the impact global corporations have on the environment. Furthermore, people would be able to easily contact legislators and the companies through social media, email, by phone, etc. We've created a prototype of the database we would use to launch a full-scale application using data scraped from various sources as well as apis from opensecrets. Com. For the database we've used the django rest framework, but the same concept could easily be implemented using most modern database systems... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

24/7 Facility Manager

Bandora wrote: Bandora is your virtual facility manager fully focused and dedicated to well operate and maintain your building. We push commercial buildings to operate to their utmost efficiency, keep spaces well ventilated and healthy, look for the optimal comfort zone for the occupants and detect abnormal consumptions. Because we integrate with any iot systems in buildings, we do not overlap with existing investments, but complement and retrofit them. Bandora comprehends a data exchange gateway that connects to any building system, a crowd comfort feedback app for occupants, an ai engine to correlate data and simple and intuitive dashboard for assets managers or cfo level, where the savings, comfort, notifications and alerts for action are available... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

3 Acre Model Organic farm

3 Acre Model Organic farm wrote: I am planning to build a 3 acre organic model farm with agro silvo pastoral system for my self sufficient. Agro-silvopastoral systems is a collective term for land-use systems, which combine a woody component (trees or shrubs) with cattle and cultivation on the same site. These systems represent a model of production and conservation based on silvi-culture, the practice of growing trees, complementary to pre-existing agricultural activities. Through this project i and my farm will be the model for organic farming. After completing my project i can suggest organic farming and awareness programs among my rural community. Finally i will be the roll model for who would like to do an organic farm. My city is jaffna sri lanka... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Sri Lanka

A bamboo bicycle

Le Michibou wrote: From plastic waste and bamboo we will soon be able to make with a very low price and few energy, le michibou. We believe this bicycle will convey our message "bike for a healthy city" thanks to its original user-experience and its noticeable design... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

France

A biodegradable fertilising flower pot

GrowGreen wrote: We obtain used coffee grounds from cafeterias and together with other organic ingredients we produce biodegradable fertilising flowerpots to replace the plastic pots that producers use. We sell our product, the greenbox, for 1 euro each while still saving money for the producer since he's not required to buy extra fertiliser. The production of plastic releases a huge amount of co2 in the air, but the production of our product leaves no carbon footprint... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus