Environmental intelligence for healthy cities 

Green Urban Data produces software that monitors and measures temperature at the neighbourhood level, locating the most vulnerable areas and offering recommendations for action to stabilize the temperature in those areas. Their innovation aims to counteract the effects of temperature on the health and economy of a city, using software as a service (SaaS) to adapt a city to the effects of temperature variations. Possible uses are for the interconnectivity of green urban areas, the design of protocols to act against heat waves, and the planning and design of green infrastructure.

Spain

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Environmentally friendly last-mile delivery solutions

Currently last-mile solutions are mainly done by vans and trucks. Velove Bikes AB seek to provide cities of the future with a sustainable replacement by using small and efficient electric cargo bikes with a low energy consumption. Utilizing the principles of containerization by implementation of city-hubs where products are transferred from larger containers to the electrical bikes, the solutions allow for large-scale delivery, reducing automotive traffic while increasing the efficiency for the delivery industry.

Sweden

Environmentally friendly laundry filter

Up to 90 percent of all chemicals washed into sewage from households consist of cleaning liquid, detergent and fabric softener. Detergents can contain micro plastics that pass through water treatment plants into natural water systems. Scandinavian Water Technology AB (SWATAB) has developed a solution they call DIRO-TM21 that enables laundry washing without detergents, at lower temperatures, giving shorter drying times. DIRO-TM21 is a filter system that can be readily installed in any public or private facility. Since DIRO filters out particles in water that can adhere to fabric, the laundry comes out not only clean but also soft to the touch.

Sweden

EOGU

EOGU wrote: Our innovative device is a new system of produce electricity. Consist of a grid of small nozzels, that accelerate the wind speed, with small vertical wind turbines in the throat... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Spain

eutopia

eutopia wrote: A social business mapping innovative green startups to provide market players with insights, analytics, and consulting on the future of green technology. . We are working on a platform to find information about green startups and technologies with the aim of putting greentech innovation in front of decision-makers. Check out our beta: https://www. App. Eutopiagreen. Com. The platform includes information such as brief and in-detail descriptions, email, phone, founded date, employee number, company type, and top competitors for each venture. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

EV Scholarship Challenge

MIS100 wrote: Ev scholarship challenge has two categories, which means there will be two winners. Also, the runner-up gets a prize, too!. $1500 essay category:write a maximum of 1000 words essay about the benefits of riding ev in houston. $1500 social media category:post a picture with a caption “where is ev?” with a car emoji. Post it on social media and whoever has the most “likes” within one week since the posted date wins. (hint: take a photo with celebrity, if possible. Be as creative as you can to get to reach your goal!). Make sure to make your post public, so that we can keep the count for the “likes. ” you will not get the credit, if we cannot see your post. Follow our tweeter, instagram, and facebook page to check if we got your score correctly... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

Evacuated tube solar cooker

ETC tubes and heat exchangers which utilized solar energy for cooking appliances. Can be used indoors. 

India

Expert agronomist at your finger tips

Ujuzikilimo Solutions wrote: Africa has more than 300 million smallholder farmers, but these farms are producing only at 30% of their potential. For these farmers, life can feel like a constant guessing game, and lack of data leads to uninformed farming decisions on fertilizers, seeds and other inputs. Farmers have lost an average of 40 kilograms of macronutrient per hectare every year -- the equivalent of us$5 billion/year worth of fertilizer. . Ujuzikilimo proprietary low cost sensor technology measures soil moisture, ph, nutrient levels (n, p, and k), location, and electrical conductivity (ec). The sensor technology does not require existing soil maps and therefore can be easily used everywhere... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Extract energy from tides

Reel Tide Energy wrote: Patented concept to extract energy from the flow of tides by deploying a 'drag pod' in the flow over a distance that is attached to a line that runs over a pulley wheel or draws line out from. Reels. The torque generated and the movement of the wheel/reel linked to a generator produces electricity on the ebb and flow tides... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ireland

Extreme weather

LoWA - Local Weather Alert wrote: We take weather forecasting to the city grid level. Collecting weather data such as temperature, humidity or even wind speed from a broad local network of sensors constituting among others so-called lorawan sensors and city weather stations, we create a unique dataset mapping the local city weather. If weather parameters reach a critical level due to extreme weather events, we are able to provide location-specific alerts tailored to the weather conditions through our api. These can be used to warn people ahead of time for example in case of extreme heat or flooding... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany