Treeconomy

Treeconomy wrote: We use high quality remote sensing (drone-based lidar or satellite imagery) to exactly quantify tree growth and therefore carbon captured. Land owners pay us for this service, and in return we quantify carbon sequestered on their land, package it financially, and sell it directly to companies who need to offset emissions (such as the aviation sector). We bring science and rigour to the carbon offset market, as well as smart database technology to avoid double counting. Our offset-as-a-service is entirely innovative in this space... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Integration of solar into microgrids using batteries

SwitchDin Pty Ltd is simplifying integration of solar and batteries into micro-grid and edge-of-grid services by using a local controller called “Droplet”. It enables site energy control, management and coordination. By connecting to a cloud platform, “StormCloud”, the individual Droplets are supported with data. Furthermore, connecting to the cloud allows individual controllers to cluster using a long-range communication system, which can help secure the service for areas not supported by cellular networks.

India

S.T.A.N.

Tio^2 wrote: A waste water treatment system that takes advantage of solar energy in order to heat a water flux taken from industrial residues, cleaning it for recycle in a sustentable way, plus, the structure used is covered in titanium oxide (tio^2) which breaks carbon dioxide molecule down into c0 and oxygen, helping the fight against air pollution in citys, specifically industries of mexico city. Water gets cleaned by passing first through an activated carbon filter, then an inverse osmosis filter, to later pass through a condensation process, and finally to a cistern, while checking and controlling the water variables through iot... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Mexico

We upcycle your old clothes

The modern fashion designer wrote: We upcycle clothes which are in the wardrobe of everybody! so, we give this piece a new life and it has not be produced a new one. In another country for instance a jean takes around 32kg co2 which our shop can reduce to only 1kg and the costumer will have out of this jean two pieces or more. What is important too - we can save so much water! included this process that we make for instance out of one jeans - two other pieces, we try to educate the people what the clothes made out of and how they were produced true a simple trick. And our system behind our tailor shop makes us unique and economical... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Intelligent tag to show food freshness

Oscillum wrote: Oscillum is a biotechnology company that focus its activity on the food safety industry. We are developing smart labels that once placed in contact with fresh food such as fish and meat it will measure the estate of that product and will notify consumers whether their food is edible or not by a simple color change. Our idea is to develop a more efficient system to prevent food wasting. Our labels are biodegradable, works into the packaging and once it is open and is very easy to use and to understand as it works by color changes... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Spain

Air purification by algae culture

Ciyé wrote: Our product is an ornamental element that helps companies and small business interested in improving their air quality in their environment by a natural air purifier that reduces air pollutants and increases the percentage of oxygen in their surroundings. The main elements of our prototype are water and algae spirulina, which consume co2, nox, pm10 and pm2. 5 in its growth and produce oxygen. The design of our product consist in a modular hexagonal cell that allows us to define the necessary size that the equipment must have as a whole depending on the air purification capacity of the site. A single group of four cellscan clean up to 500 kilograms of criteria pollutants (nox, co2, pm10 and pm2. 5) per year... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Mexico

No more microfibres

PlanetCare wrote: Every time we wash our clothes – especially if we wash synthetic fabrics, we release millions of microparticles into the world water supply, that eventually ends up in the ocean. But it doesn't have to be that way. Because when we install our filter technology into the next generation of washing machines and when consumers put this filters into existing washing machines, we capture those microfibres before they're ever released. So that they can be disposed at safety and responsibly... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

moveatile

moveatile wrote: Since the modern lifestyle is constantly changing, building and materials reconversion is inevitable - waste, however, is not. We aim to transform this apparent issue into an opportunity. Our approach needs to change: why destroy something still functional instead of reusing it? the basic construction elements of many “out of use” buildings are still in really good shape and we want to put them to good use! . Moveatile is a game-changing project: we aim to design products using the circular economy approach and we start from waste! moveatile detachable ceramic fixing system extends the tiles’ lifetime, offers the option of multiple-use and the opportunity to resell the tiles - once no longer needed - instead of destroying them... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Romania

Procurement platform for renewable energy installers

Increasing efficiency in installing solar production by providing installers with a one-stop shop with procuring materials. Quality is ensured by partership with high-end brands

India

WasteDecreaser

WasteDecreaser wrote: We want to improve people's life quality , and give simple way to reuse and utilize plastic bottles. Our solution is in neighbourhoods where there are no recycle containers , provide people with some type of machine that will cut bottles into long and thin stripes . Then people can easily carry this waste or you use is as a helpful tool in the garden . For an example gardeners can simply organize their workspace by keeping plant bonded by stripes. Everyone can use this strips for different purposes and no matter how old or who are you. Our team members observe this problem every day, cause we can feel this pain, living in different parts of town where people dont have any possibilities to sort waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Belarus