Plantopia

Plantzilla wrote: We build a sensor bundle that monitors plant vitals like soil moisture, sun light, humidity, and temperature. The sensor bundle communicates with an app that displays the information in an appealing interface and informs the user on the required steps to bring the plant to a better state, or maintain its state. The hardware is based on a microcontroller with the relevant sensors, and the user interface is a web based application. A pump is also integrated to allow for automatic irregation of the plants by avoiding over- and under-irregation and maintaining a desirable level of soil moisture... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Delivering bio-alkanol gel fuel

Alkagel Ltd wrote: This innovation addresses agro/biowaste conversion and therefore exploits fruit peelings and poultry-derived eggshells as raw materials to deliver economical and renewable biofuel capable of significantly lowering wood-based fuels, parafin and gas-based fuel dependency by rural communities in kenya,uganda and tanzania. Biofuels play significant roles in decarburization of our future energy needs and act to mitigate deleterious impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. The bio-alkanol gel fuel has orange peals as a raw material. Orange fruits accumulate the monoterpene limonene in their oil glands (badawy et al. 2017). Bio-akanol gel repels mosquitoes since d-limonene is incorporated into the bio-alkanol gel fuel... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

CupLe

CupLe wrote: We are cuple, read as couple. There is a reason for it. We create a new, smart, circular eco-system where single use packaging becomes obsolete. We make a smart machine and a smart bottle (yes, they work in pair). We create a smart bottle that can be a cup and a bottle (cuple again!). . And we want to couple business and responsibility of both consumers and producers. We aim to create our bottle mainly of retrieved and recycled plastics and/or metal, we are designing a low-energy consuming, recyclable and modular smart vending machine, and a back-end that will support you to seamlessly take any drink with your bottle. Imagine that your bottle is your wallet, and our machine is your fountain... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

High efficiency dual hybrid combustion engine

The NESS solution is based on a cost effective retrofittable dual hybrid (both kinetic- & heat energy recovery). The product is primarily aimed towards automotive & commercial vehicle engines, which when installed results in reduction of CO2 and other emissions by increasing the overall efficiency of the engine combustion. Efficiency is increased through the power savings from the NESS attachment. The retrofit can lead to more sustainable consumption of fuels in the future.

Sweden

BeniT - The Industrial symbiosis accelerator

BendiT wrote: We have created a minimal viable product (mvp) that currently lists materials (secondary products) from the companies resource pipelines and thus offering other companies to place an order. The mvp was build using r language and the data is stored in mongo database. The code developed during 40 hr climathon is deposited in a public repository - github (https://github. Com/gsrnivas/bendit). If we get an opportunity, we aim to continue working developing this platformby adding morefunctionalities and have a production ready application in 6 months time... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Worm-box that transforms domestic waste

Worm Revolution wrote: We live in a world of resources extraction and waste: 99% of our food is not organic, so it requires chemical inputs that come from mining. Moreover, 99 percent of the stuff we buy is trashed within 6 months. Luckily worms are our allies to solve this issue!. With our worm compost bin, we help citizens to transform easily organic waste into natural fertilizers. By reducing their waste footprint, our customers produce a high value resource to grow their own healthy food, to share or to sell. . Our product is easy to use, hygienic and fun. It is made of non-treated wood and is manufactured digitally (with an automatic wood cutter), allowing to produce it locally and at a custom size... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Reshape Technology

Reshape Technology wrote: Our technology allows anyone. Carrying a mobile phone to measure and reduce their impact on climate change. It monitors daily activities, automatically calculates carbon footprint and displays it in an intuitive way. . Like a fitness tracker, it works on the principle that if you can measure your performance, you can improve it. . But it doesn't stop there. We gamify carbon reduction to create behavioural change. We analyse performance, awards points for good carbon behaviour, then create teams so people can compete at an individual, family, city or country level. . We build social momentum, making people part of the solution to climate change, not the problem... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Community gardening app

Garden Tender wrote: Anyone with an interest in gardening can sign up to explore their city's gardens and gardeners and help each other produce sustainable food and build strong connections. Users can be complete newbies, advanced garden gurus, or even just those who have a patch to tend and no time to work on it. When they sign up, they can enter their own garden space, including any unused plots they want other users to collaborate on. Next they can use the map to find other users' gardens and available plots to tend close to home. If they're ready to start gardening, they can make a booking in an available plot, adding the plants they'll grow there. Plants will be stored for each user, and users can access a database of plant care info for each one... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Re-inventing take away food packaging

Prêt-à-Pack (PAP) wrote: Prêt-à-pack is a lifestyle changing daily accessory that you won’t leave home without. In our co-effort attempt to reduce plastic waste, pap is your bring your own, pack and go food container, aiming to reduce the use of single-use plastic containers and advocate positive change in consumers’ habit. The idea is to turn a fundamental, uncomplicated concept, with ingenious design, to tackle current plastic waste problems. Our aim is to instill pap and its concept into our everyday lives, for one day becomes a habit so natural that we will unconsciously diminish the use of single-use plastic, helping to unlock the issue of accumulating plastic waste on our planet... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Milênio Bus

Milênio Bus wrote: Milênio bus is a platform that provides real time information of passenger demand in public buses. With our product, bus companies can manage their routes and the time interval of each bus, according to the number of passengers that usually takes the bus. Simple, right? with these decisions, companies can optimize more than 10% of the bus fleet, and have more than 10% of fuel economy. Not to mention that the passengers will be able to see if the bus is coming and is full/empty through our app!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil