Singapore Challenges You to a Carbon-off

Singapore launched its Climate Innovation Challenge 2016, which involved a 36-hour hackathon to promote innovative, cost-effective green solutions that safeguard the city-state’s environment.

Singapore challenges you to a carbon-off, open to all eco-preneurs and tech wizards interested combating the climate crises the contestants focused on solving a range of challenges with prizes of up to $5,000 for grabs.

The challenges were:

1. Encouraging building tenants to reduce energy use and increase sustainability by designing a technology-based solution that is user-friendly, facilitates fuss-free, cost-effective energy management and encourages building users to make behavioral adjustments towards saving energy

2. Using Big Data to improve operations and maintenance of green buildings by designing a technology-based solution to make it easier for facility managers to identify key areas in optimizing building efficiency, taking into account the day-to-day challenges of managing a building

3. Managing outdoor spaces by designing a technology-based solution that enhances the experiences of people using green spaces. The solution also needs to facilitate the maintenance, monitoring and overall 1/2 management of the outdoor spaces

4. Creating a Zero-carbon district by providing a technology-based solution to improve resource efficiency, including energy and water, at a district-level, to lower Singapore’s carbon emissions and create zero-carbon districts

The take-out The latest apps may be ones that solve our climate crises.

*Robert C. Brears is the author of  Urban Water Security (Wiley) and founder of Mark and Focus. Urban Water Security argues that, with climate change and rapid urbanization, cities need to transition from supply-side to demand-side management to achieve urban water security.

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