AquaSense promotes efficient water usage

AquaSense wrote: Aquasense allows users to view their household water consumption, broken down by the appliance. Based on an interactive service, households can save money due to consumption behavior changes. Household members can set goals, keep and update a consumption diary and get through messaging, information on their progress towards their goal and personalized feedback. . With aquasense, consumers can participate in social networking groups, the ‘reference’ groups, consisting of household units with similar characteristics. Households are categorized according to their consuming performance and best attitudes are rewarded through a ‘green’ on-line membership card with for example discounts on green retailers, advertised in aquasense app. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Greece

Elevator modernization

Elevator-KERS wrote: Components of elevator system, depending on the situation, have excess gravitational potential energy that goes to waste. Our solution stores and utilizes this energy by hydraulic kinetic energy recovery system- kers. This way, overall elevator electricity consumption is decreased by 10%. Not much per elevator, but there’re 80000 new elevator units each year so savings sum up significantly.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

TreeSPot

TreeSPot wrote: Treespot makes it possible for cities to put trees in places where it is impossible to plant them. By creating additional green infrastructure, cities can create more people friendly urban spaces and foster climate resilience. Treespot is a smart, mobile, modular and scalable tree growing system which doesn’t require underground or pavement interventions. Mobile, modular and scalable: a treespot module- a single unit consisting of a planter, substrate, and a tree can be constructed by a single person and moved around a flat area by a one-person pallet jack/forklift. The modules link together to create a functioning and self-sustaining ecosystem- a park on top of concrete, without requiring any underground or pavement interventions... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Croatia

We make paper pulp acoustic panels

echofixer wrote: Being a musician and a carpenter for more than three decades, in my search for better sound for my home studio i’ve discovered that neither egg cartons nor wood are the best solution. Our product is a paper pulp acoustic panel that can be used as a sound diffuser to fix the echo in a room and improve sound clarity and quality. It spreads sound evenly back in the room, just like photographers use light diffusers on their flashes to avoid hard shadows. Its design is based on existing tried and tested methods. Paper pulp is affordable and it is light enough to be easily installed by just one person. It’s also recycled, recyclable and fully biodegradable... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus

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

Cycle

Cycle wrote: In the world of mixed information and busy lifestyles, correct waste disposal may seem intimidating and time-consuming. In spite of common belief, not all plastics are recyclable and when they are, they need to be free of any leftover produce that might contaminate the whole batch. Our team worked on a mobile app that would facilitate it as well as encourage zero-waste alternatives. Our platform focuses primarily on recycling, reusing and reducing. Our solution consists of scanning a bar code to get information on the correct way of disposing of a packaging/object... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Turning useless sludge to useful raw materials

Byeplastic wrote: Byeplastic will be. Activated mainly in a wastewater treatment plant. Where we can exploit the useless sewage sludge to produce a raw material used by bioplastic manufacturers. The whole process outweighs the advantages of other kinds of plastic production as it can reduce the co2 emissions during the production and hence downgrade the importance of petroleum to our lives. It is also costless and biodegradable thanks to its raw material. Our target is to be drastic to pitch in the climate change, changing the plastic!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Greece

We convert plastic waste

Mega Gas wrote: People all over the world use fuels everyday to survive and move. Traditional forms of fuels comprise biomass and fossil fuels. These fuels forms have been over strained beyond limits, exploitation of biomass fuels have degraded eco system. This leads to global warming and hence introducing new clean fuels into use to replace dependence on traditional fuels with the hope of reducing global warming and improving health of majority of population who have no access to fuels. The use of biomass fuels leads to indoor pollution that kills over four million annually according to world health organization. Plastic waste is also a big menace world wide, even now we have the island of plastic in the pacific ocean... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Sustainable passive cooling house

Sustainable Passive Cooling wrote: Our solution tackles extreme weather events; extreme temperatures to be exact, either it be low extremes or high. The solution constitutes two phases: spreading awareness regarding environmental and economic damages related to using conventional cooling/heating systems, then introducing new approaches of eco-friendly cooling/heating techniques. The first phase consists of launching awareness campaigns through social media and field visits. Extreme temperature leads to over consumption of energy, causing an increase in levels of co2, further exasperating the surge in temperature; in the second phase we aim to cool houses passively without the continuous use of conventional air conditioning systems... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Sudan

Optimizing the Public Transportation

Ariadne wrote: Ariadne aims to optimise the use of public transportation by providing useful information like the exits & nearby compartments in the train to their destination so that the passengers have a much more efficient way to use the public transportation services. This would aid in the implementation of the policies in the pipelines of many modern cities like paris, london, brussels, hamburg, etc to eliminate the use of polluting private vehicles from the cities. . The modern day cities are fighting the air and noise pollution caused by the extensive use of private vehicles in the city. Some of the cities like paris, brussels, jakarta have banned the use of private vehicles in parts of the city centre or for limited periods of time... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany