Unleashing vehicles with thermal Imaging

HeatGrade wrote: In 2007, google unleashed a fleet of cars with roofmounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world. Now ysi spinout heatgrade is bringing similar "drive-by" innovations to energy efficiency in homes and businesses. Heatgrade deploys trucks and cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in "building envelopes"—windows, doors, walls, and foundations—to help owners curb energy loss... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

ChargeBnB

ChargeBnB wrote: Chargebnb starts with the first b as an ev owner looking to charge the vehicle, while the second b refers to the private charging point owner looking for extra revenue from charging points while not using it for personal use. The platform of chargebnb creates a simple one point of contact for every ev owner to charge their vehicle, not needing many apps and pricing plans. A simple one stop shop solution of chargebnb enables an effective charging solution for electric vehicles, while connected to the back-end cloud network. The platform runs on a ocpp protocol and creates a back-end solution for roaming services (similar to mobile phone roaming)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

Urban planning tool

Team UP wrote: To achieve this we are introducing a platform which gathers all information between planners, homeowners, real estate companies, and buidling companies in order to facilitate team building and information exchange. In this platform real estate develpers/builders can publish tenders for different teams to participate in. This will enable the creation of effective teams with the players required by the project. Once a proposal is chosen the selected team has the opportunity to further develop the project and maximize the design efficiency in order to reduce time and costs and to ensure that all the actors on the project have all of the information they need to fullfill the requirements... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Mellow Moments Annovation

Mellow Moments Annovation wrote: Mellow moments annovation is an innovative food & beverage startup developing zero wastage instant liquid tea. Every year india nearly dumps 500 mt of de-caffeinated tea waste after tea consumption. Mellow moments annovation aims to sell instant liquid tea to the consumers and converts the remaining de-caffeinated tea waste into green compost & other value-added products. The team is passionately working for product development (instant liquid tea) with innovative ip protected technology. The startup is bootstrapped & developing the basic product prototype through lab research and expecting to get into pilot testing in next 6-8 months... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Vaquita Technologies

Vaquita Technologies wrote: Healthy waters everywhere. All the time. . We are developing a compact water quality sensory station that blends with the environment. This station is made of environmentally friendly materials that can be customized to the stakeholders' needs to trigger alarms and read water measurements remotely in real-time. Instead of waiting to get a result by manually extracting a water sample, our customers will get real-time information of their water quality, thus preventing significant environmental damage due to the live alarm feature. They will also be able to add, remove, or replace different sensors according to their needs, having the reassurance that they can drink/swim/fish in those waters and can react to pollution alarms... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Sweden

Sensor technology for increased battery efficiency

The innovation is focused on upgraded batteries and their use for energy storage devices and in vehicles. The batteries are built with a sensor that helps monitor and control the batteries, achieve an increased energy availability, power density, charge rate etc. When installed in t comes to vehicles, the batteries are measured to get more effect out of each battery and can be beneficial for both price, weight, and volume. The same battery is also expected to give more mileage and faster charge rate. When it comes to battery storage, the batteries are expected to even out energy supply over time since the batteries are suitable for energy storage.

Sweden

Next level power unit cooling systems

TST wrote: . We developed a two stage approach for cooling train power units. Firstly we focused on cooling during dynamic phase via adjustable flaps, a heat transfer system and a combination of diffusors and nozzles. For static use we developed a special fan system for train station operation. Different operation phases and solutions: acceleleration phase: klappen system schließen. Diffusor-düse-system. Wärmeleitsystem. Werkstoffauswahl (für wärmeleitsystem). Drive mode. Klappen anstellen (winkel adaptieren). Latentwärmespeicher „laden“. Diffusor-düse-system. Externer wagen zur kühlung. Deceleration. Klappen öffnen (entlüften). Konstruktion adaptieren (kamineffekt). Latentwärmespeicher entladen. Wärmeleitsystem. Werkstoffauswahl (wärmeleitsystem... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Regreening deserted fields in Sub-Sahara

Greendesert wrote: In cooperation with professors from the university of bremen and local partners in cameroon, we have developed an entrepreneurial approach to combat desertification in cameroon. Using the revitec technology developed by researchers at the university of bremen, we fill biodegradable bags with various local substrates and seeds and lay them on the affected fields. The bags provide the seedlings with nutrients and sufficiently store water to guarantee sustainable plant growth, even in very dry weather conditions. . . Our aim is to build up a business in cameroon which offers a regreening service to the local communities. This service consists of targeting the respective fields,.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Pentagrama Agroflorestal

Pentagrama Agroflorestal wrote: Our solution is the result of technical knowledge accumulated over 20 years of research, development and implementation of large-scale agroforestry systems. We associate, based on agriculture 4. 0: mechanization, precision and biological agriculture, digital technology in production and data collection, analysis and software for monitoring. Our business model is based on a platform concept that connects all stakeholders: investors, cooperatives (including family farming), rural owners, producers, distributors and buyers. It is a 20-years financial model with minimum profitable area for implementation, system design, mapped market demands, pre-purchase agreements and land options for implementation... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Thin CIGS solar cells

Midsummer’s innovation Midsummer Slim, which is a solar panel composed of thin film CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) solar cells. The solar panel is ultra-thin with a thickness of 2 mm and an average weight of 3 kg/m2. The panel can be integrated into roofing materials such as folded sheet roofs and roof tiles, and it can also be mounted externally on existing roofs. It has a nominal effect of 144 Wp and a production capacity of 100 Wp/m2. The manufacturer information states that the panel has a maximum efficiency of 16 % at a cellular level.

Sweden