MIT Solve

Solution overview

Our Solution

Location services about natural resources and more.

Tagline

Geo-located quality indicators’ sources are integrated on one position and moment aware acquisition and reporting platform.

Pitch us on your solution

Residents, businesses or visitors can acquire on-line, real-time practical data information about the qualities, ingredients and more about natural resources’ (e.g. water, air, soil, food) and other geo-located quality indicators (e.g. emissions, web, mobiles) and their consequences on living quality, health, environment, nature, and will make decisions of a personal, health care, academic, industrial, financial, (carbon) trading, transport, insurance, environment and health monitoring , and/or governmental nature.

Why location services are (to be) huge?

(1) User base: Population in developed countries 1 Billion; Mobile subscriptions 6 Billion worldwide; Global population in 2050 - 9 Billion.

(2) Awareness is growing, practical and profitable services (e.g. advertising, subscription and huge indicators’ data bases trading).

(3) Novel approach (US patent 8,624,732) and fully-fledged digital green economy.

Patents applied in Slovenia and in USA. WIPO published links are: “System and method for geocoded contents preparation from a plurality of location base elements” and “Providing access to quality indicators for natural resources”.

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What is the problem you are solving?

Ordinary users are provided with practical and useful geolocated information and knowledge about environmental issues, health and life-safety implications based on real-time processing of information about health impacts, on quality and way of life, pollution, discharges and greenhouse gases in real time.

A. water quality category and specifications views and alerts for drinking water on the tap, bottling or food production, agriculture and watering, recreational or bathing water in rivers, lakes, sea; etc.

B. pollution and emissions health and life safe impacts;

C. environmental ecological footprints and greenhouse gases emissions, carbon footprints measurement, calculations, etc.

Who are you serving?

Customers and target market

locus4u is aimed as a global platform and service. Includes individuals, governments, institutions, businesses, investment banks, insurances, .. Primary customers:

- tourists and business people;

- local individuals (checking water/air/soil quality at their home);

- business (tourist centers, hotels, restaurants), governments, health care;

- environmentally-aware people.

Sales channels

- location and contextually-aware advertising;

- sale of processed/analyzed data to larger institutions;

- processed data used in the learning process (teaching platforms).

What is your solution?

Integration of Infrastructures

Existing supervisory control (SCADA), internet - Web, ICT, positioning and mobile systems are integrated, operations are managed and contracted by trustful owners and novel mechanisms are implemented for Web and existing location elements and services processing.

Which dimensions of the challenge does your solution most closely address?

Reduce the incidence of NCDs from air pollution, lack of exercise, or unhealthy food
Enable equitable access to affordable and effective health services

Where is your solution team headquartered?

Slovenia

Our solution's stage of development:

Concept

More about your solution

Select one of the below:

New technology

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

Novel approach (US patent 8,624,732) and fully-fledged digital green economy.

Patents applied in Slovenia and in USA. WIPO published links are: “System and method for geocoded contents preparation from a plurality of location base elements” and “Providing access to quality indicators for natural resources”.

Describe the core technology that your solution utilizes.

Existing supervisory control (SCADA), internet - Web, ICT, positioning and mobile systems are integrated, operations are managed and contracted by trustful owners and novel mechanisms are implemented for Web and existing location elements and services processing.

LOCATION SERVICES ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES AND MORE (LINK) is innovative, position and moment aware reporting providing the citizens, communities and businesses with adequate, timely and appropriate information about natural resources’ and other geo-located quality indicators. E.g. about water, air, soil, food quality, ingredients (contaminants), (health/eco) impacts, etc.

There are more and more corporations and politicians that had the public good in mind - health for humans, nature and environment.

LINK - https://sites.google.com/site/stebetomaz/Home/seeking/locus4u-partnership-and-cooperation-invitation

(video) (Drinking water case short profile)

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Big Data
Indigenous Knowledge
Social Networks

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

THE RIGHTS OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE → HEALTH

Residents, businesses or visitors can acquire on-line, real-time practical data information about the qualities, ingredients and more about natural resources’ (e.g. water, air, soil, food) and other geo-located quality indicators (e.g. emissions, web, mobiles) and their consequences on living quality, health, environment, nature, and will make decisions of a personal, health care, academic, industrial, financial, (carbon) trading, transport, insurance, environment and health monitoring , and/or governmental nature.

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

Rural Residents
Peri-Urban Residents
Urban Residents

How many people are you currently serving with your solution? How many will you be serving in one year? How about in five years?

One pilot implementation for drinking water case has been applied on a limited scale for the municipality Slovenska Bistrica.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdGViZXRvbWF6fGd4OmZlZTUzZWQ1Y2NkNzc5

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

https://sites.google.com/site/stebetomaz/Home/seeking/locus4u-partnership-and-cooperation-invitation

What are the barriers that currently exist for you to accomplish your goals for the next year and for the next five years?

Lack of partnership and financing.

How are you planning to overcome these barriers?

Monetizing of the invention, business model, specification and pilot implementation.

About your team

Your business model & funding

Partnership potential

Why are you applying to Solve?

We are looking for investors as financing or development partners. Implementing location services in different systems and countries with number of users is a base for joint venture or similar cooperation.

What types of connections and partnerships would be most catalytic for your solution?

Business model
Technology
Distribution
Funding and revenue model
Legal
Other

If you selected Other, please explain here.

Social networks and/or smart environments (cities, villages, buildings, ..).

Legal in meaning municipalities - depending on the ownership of the resources analysis or measurements - if not based on the rights of access to information of public importance.

With what organizations would you like to partner, and how would you like to partner with them?

Based on the number of installations and users preferable with companies like XYLEM, HONEYWELL, IBM, ABB or Google, Facebook, Microsoft, ..

If you would like to apply for the AI Innovations Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If you are not already using AI in your solution, explain why it is necessary for your solution to be successful and how you plan to incorporate it.

Big data and AI are planned as the next stage after enough number of installations and relevant data acquired.

If you would like to apply for the Innovating Together for Healthy Cities Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

For what we wrote in our short profile titled "LOCATION SERVICES ON NATURAL RESOURCES’ REPORTING – ABOUT WATER CASE":

The public, businesses and local communities are becoming increasingly aware of water quality for health and living, recreation, travel and environment quality at home and in real-estate, tourism and business premises. We believe1 that there are more and more corporations and politicians that had the good of the public in mind – health for the humans, nature and environment.

Clear water with better communication: connected citizens and public servants can cooperate and mutually contribute to do things better.

If you would like to apply for the Everytown for Gun Safety Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

We will add services like where are sourced and what are impacts on natural resources, health and living qualities.

If you would like to apply for the Innovation for Women Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

We presume that there is no specifics concerning women.

If you would like to apply for the Innospark Ventures Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If your solution utilizes data, describe how you will ensure that the data is sourced, maintained, and used ethically and responsibly.

The data sources are validated and secured to protect originality.