Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge and Win Cash Prize up to $50,000

InnoCentive is offering Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge. Air pollution, including smoke from wildfires, contributes to substantial adverse clinical, public health and economic impacts worldwide. Solutions which affordability and particulate matter removal will be considered favorably.

Awards of up to $50,000.  

The challenge is intended to encourage the development of new approaches, technologies, or technology combinations that meet the following objectives:

• The solution should maintain performance under real-word conditions, i.e., that the solution maintains indoor reductions over sustained periods of time (a few weeks) during high outdoor concentrations.
• The Solver should provide an analysis of the benefits that are derived from this novel approach, showing how they balance the tradeoffs of more modest results.
• For any solution, any assumptions should be clearly stated.
• Costs no more than $100 per functional unit with all components to purchase
• Operates at less than 45 decibels
• Is safe to operate continuously for weeks at a time

Additional design features that are desired (but not required):

• Cools the room without drawing in smoky or polluted air
• Is sustainable to use: operating and maintenance costs are low, replacement parts are available/accessible, waste is minimized
• Uses a battery or other option for operation during power outage
• Reduces other pollutants (e.g., volatile organic compounds – VOCs)

The design should avoid:

• Generation of any air pollutant (e.g., ozone)
• Any design based primarily on a box fan with a commercially available filter attached

About InnoCentive:

InnoCentive is the global leader in crowdsourcing innovation problems to the world’s smartest people who compete to provide ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges. Commercial, governmental and humanitarian organizations engage with InnoCentive to solve problems that can impact humankind in areas ranging from the environment to medical advancements. InnoCentive's global network of millions of problem solvers, proven challenge methodology, and cloud-based innovation management platform combine to help its clients transform their economics of innovation through rapid solution delivery and the development of sustainable open innovation programs.

See more available job opportunities in Egypt on For9a 

See more available fellowships on For9a