Cityfilters

cityfilters wrote: We are cityfilter a startup working on techniques to reduce air pollution in metropolitan cities. Air pollution in metro cities and around the world has reached the hazardous level, 70 million people are dying every year due to air pollution (who). There are various solutions (like air purifying tower in china, water sprinklers and huge outdoor air purifiers) available to purify the outdoor air but they need land and time to construct & install and power (burn fossil fuel) for operations. . The major drawback of such solution they use external energy that is generated from the burning of fossil fuel in power plants. Such power plants are one of. Biggest contributor to green house gases (ghg) in the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

WAIR

WAIR wrote: Wair is on a mission to give discarded textiles a new life through the power of upcycling. In our first product, we transform "unperfect" jeans and workwear into modern and sustainable sneakers. Textile upcycling is overlooked in the circular fashion agenda, but it is a powerful recirculation strategy, that minimizes the need for new virgin material, and retains the value in the discarded fabrics. Apart from shoes, we also include the consumers in the production of upcycled fashion through upcycling workshops. Here we empower people to take up the fight against fast fashion while getting to create unique fashion pieces and letting their creativity loose... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Scaling sustainable transportation

Freelway has a service that optimizes transportation made by individuals and companies through visualization and coordination all transports within a system. Using algorithms to match transport requests with available resources, the solution offers one app-based service which provides economic and environmental benefits for all actors. The service also allows for the integration of a post delivery system for transporting last mile deliveries. The market group is currently rural and urban users.

Sweden

Water purification for developing countries

SolarSack wrote: Solarsack can contain 4 liters of water, and with 4 hours in the sun, the water will be pasteurized, and ready to drink. With about 60 uses, a single solarsack can provide more than 240 liters of water. Solarsack is made to reduce shipping cost, and with a production price 1/5 the cost of a bucket of coal, solarsack can be sold at a profit, and still be affordable to the user. Solarsack is developed based on studies and prototyping in east africa, and the both the purification process and the user interaction is tested with the actual users in africa. Calculation including shipping and distribution still gives solarsack a 1/20 the co2 emission compared to boiling with charcoal, while totally eliminating the use of wood... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Technologies to save energy

Vivek Institute Of Consultancy Services In Science wrote: Vicss is a staunch scientific platform where we provide solutions to all engineering science, medical science and technological issues that the students, faculty, medicos and people having innovative conceptions are facing in scientific research platform from ground level to apex level. The platform comprises of students, lecturers and researchers who are having dying interest to bring innovative things into authentic life for the sake of their people’s welfare that is society. It makes people sustainable in their scientific phrenic conceptions by providing all simulated and authentic time practical erudition which they require and well suit their desiderata... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Platform for sharing short distance trips

SPRIDES - Saving Planet RIDES wrote: Through an app for smartphones, sprides is a platform for short-distance rides, connecting drivers and passengers willing to share trips and respective cost in urban areas. So on the one hand people reduces travel costs, optimizing the efficiency of the use of cars, and in the other hand reduce car traffic in urban centers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

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