EnviTori

The EnviTori project promotes a wider use of environmental data and information. EnviTori takes the first steps towards an environmental information market place, which enables consumers, private and public institutes to share environmental data and information more easily. Information sharing improves overall environmental awareness in society and enables improvements in the environmental efficiency of different activities at all levels. Authorities can monitor how environmental regulations are obeyed and how they affect the state of the environment in the long run. Business can utilize environmental information in decision making, and ordinary people can improve their quality of life, and on the other hand, monitor the state of their environment more easily.

EnviTori develops a pilot market place that is utilized by two service prototypes. One of the services takes air quality and pollen observations and forecasts as an input, and produces tailored alerts to sensitive people about changes in the air quality conditions. The alerts are tailored based on user health profiles. The other service prototype focuses on energy consumption and localized servies and studies how businesses could integrate critical factor information and environmental data, and how this data can be used in delivering more environmental friendly products and services.

EnviTori combines the strong expertise of ICT and environmental technology in Finland. EnviTori utilizes the knowhow of the whole Flexible services programme by cooperating with the Eden project to find out best practices, tools and methods for defining and implementing environmental data services, and with the Booster project to utilize the state-of-the-art methods in user-driven development.

Further information: ville.kotovirta (at) vtt.fi