Smart energy platform

Bright Energy offers electricity suppliers a tool to help their customers optimize their energy usage by showcasing all their services in one platform. This is done by, for example, visualizing total consumption for individual customers and providing real-time information for when it is not optimal to consume electricity, based on the status of the grid. Improved energy logistics can enable the introduction of more renewable energy generation, especially if more demand comes from customers. Energy savings can also be seen if consumer behavior changes.

Sweden

Transparent, heat reflecting nanotech

NanoScreen wrote: Up to 40% of electricity costs in office buildings are due to air-conditioning and with dwindling energy resources, there is a need of new energy-efficient products on the market. At present, opaque and translucent window films are used to cut out the amount of light and heat entering a room. Yet, these can only stop a small portion of heat from entering, while compromising the transparency of glass windows. That is the reason we came up with an innovative energy-saving solution: nanoscreen. . Nanoscreen is a unique, transparent polymer-based screen embedded with special ir-reflecting nanoparticles, therefore reducing the cost of air-conditioning... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Arzsk Technologies

Arzsk Technologies wrote: Arzsk provides daylighting systems and services to commercial and residential buildings. We are also in the development of a self-assemble daylighting bot-amy. Place amy in an area getting direct sunlight(window or a balcony) and have a personal sun illuminating your workspace/home inside. Among the renewable sources, solar energy has the least environmental impact (hydropower projects require vast lands to submerge). And rooftop solutions provide excellent decentralized systems. Our innovation improves upon rooftop pv systems in a way that does not require inefficient conversion of light to electricity by directly using visible part of the spectrum to illuminate a building... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

FutureFoods

FutureFoods wrote: Futurefoods is a concept about how it is possible to collect useful data along the food chain and learn from it to improve efficiency and safety to the crops. We want to make technology accessible to everyone and everywhere and encourage more distributed and resilient food production systems. . We provide integrated services to food production, from data management to automatization and integration of processes and iot sensors... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Efficient wind turbine

KiteX wrote: We are developing a new kind of wind turbine, using kite and drone technology. It is very suitable for deploying in remote locations such as islands that are often relying on expensive and dirty diesel today... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

IoT water management device

IoTap wrote: Ever disturbed your sweet dreams for checking on your water tank?. Paying unnecessarily "extra" water and electricity bills?. People unknowingly tend to waste a lot of water, knowing that freshwater is a scarce commodity on earth. But wait!!!. It's 21st century, where you sleep and your smartphone does all the work!. And that's what we do at iotap. It's a smart iot based water management device which senses and notifies. The user via an app of the water level in his/her storage tank, from where the user can monitor and turn on/off the pump motor when required to avoid overflow and overuse of water, thereby saving on water and electricity costs(by over 40%)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Kvist Solutions

Kvist Solutions wrote: Building and construction are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world. Today, constructing a green building is expensive and requires a lot of competence. Consequently, the majority of buildings are built using old methods, materials and systems, which is harmful to the environment. Our goal is to lower the bar for implementing sustainability assessment methods, such as breeam, in future projects and hopefully contributing to an increase in the number green buildings. We want to help the construction industry towards a green and digital future... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

The technological pavements company

Pavnext wrote: Pavnext consists of an equipment to implement in the road pavement surface of speed reduction areas, where vehicles needs to dissipate energy to reduce their speeds, that is able to harvest vehicle's kinetic energy and with a very high conversion efficiency transforms it into electrical energy, which can be injected into the grid or used locally in electrical applications as road illumination or traffic light signs, being more relevant if connected to the urban micro grids. It's also adapted to the smart cities, by providing information about traffic and speeds, supporting road safety... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Electricity Anytime, Everywhere.

PORT-E wrote: Port-e redefines the concept of portable electricity. It harnesses and stores the heat generated while cooking at restaurants, cafeterias and household to power up the building at a later time of the day. Being rechargeable and reusable the port-e units can reduce the footprints of the ghg by avoiding the fossil fuel-based generation of electricity. Restaurants use several units of electricity per hour accounting to a significant share in the overall power generated by the burning of fossil fuels. Heat rechargeable port-e units absorb heat by placing them around the cooking vessels or even in the kitchen. These can then be fitted into the sockets, allowing the heat stored to be converted into the electricity... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Enabling sustainable aquaculture

Synthesea wrote: More than 50% of fish eaten around the world come from aquafarms. However, fish need omega-3 to grow healthily and be nutritious. Wild fish are caught and crushed into fish oil, which is then fed to the farmed fish as a source of omega-3. . This means aquaculture contributes to overfishing. One third of all the fish caught around the world are used as feed, not eaten by humans, and the price of wild fish continues to rise as fish consumption continues to grow. . We provide a cheap and sustainable alternative to wild fish derived omega-3. We are developing a bacterial strain that coverts plant oil into a cheaper and purer omega-3, circumventing the need for wild fish... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom