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  • Intellegam EcoLLytics: Revolutionizing User and Sustainability Analytics for LLMs usage
    Modern businesses increasingly rely on LLMs for various applications, but the environmental impact and user engagement metrics often remain underexplored due to insufficient analytical tools. Co-Innovation Lab at Hochschule München, in collaboration with Intellegam GmbH, a Munich-based high-tech company, has developed EcoLLytics, a solution designed to merge environmental insights with user engagement analytics for using LLM technology.
  • Launching the intuitive “HM InsightHub” dashboard, enabling access to real-time sensor data at Hochschule München
    How can professors and lecturers at Hochschule München (HM) make their teaching more practical? As part of the Co-Innovation Lab (CIL), the project team has transformed the complexity of sensor data collected in the buildings of HM into an intuitive, user-friendly dashboard. By providing quick and effortless access, the team has changed the way lecturers and students interact with real-time data.
  • GreenTect: Securing sustainable construction for education buildings 
    In an era marked by environmental consciousness and the pressing need for sustainable solutions, educational institutions are grappling with the challenge of managing their ecological footprint with sustainable construction. Recognizing this imperative, students from Hochschule München and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) have collaboratively developed a web-based project management solution for sustainable buildings tailored for Solidar Planungswerkstatt to unveil GreenTect—an innovative solution poised to revolutionise how we monitor and enhance sustainability in educational classroom building.
  • Introducing “Ask Binny”: Improving student engagement to ensure waste separation on campus
    To ensure the fulfillment of sustainability goals, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) aims to improve the waste separation of students on campus. Within the context of a Co-Innovation Lab and DTLab project, students from TAMK collaborated with students from Hochschule München (HM) to launch a web application “Ask Binny” aiming to increase student engagement in waste separation. Get to know more about “Ask Binny” in the following video.
  • Facilitation of work through digitization at Willari
    Willari, a specialized sports equipment repair and rental business in Finland, aims to implement a digital solution to enhance customer satisfaction. The six-member team from Finland, led by directors Annika and Jonas, embarked on a collaborative journey with the Co-Innovation Lab’s consulting team, initiating an open-ended process that began with an intensive problem-finding phase involving all stakeholders.
  • Revolutionizing Solar Maintenance in rural areas with Solar InsightZ
    Zimpertec is a german company producing solar systems for people living in rural areas worldwide. The after-sales service and repairment process for solar technicians has been a complicated and time-consuming process until now. Technicians were not able to analyze the system data, repair the system immediately and always had to bring the system back to a central hub.
  • CoolVent: The Smart Way to Control Your Ventilation System
    ‘CoolVent’, a solution for efficient ventilation control across the university campus, is being developed by a team of experts from the Co-Innovation lab at University of Applied Sciences in Munich. The application contributes to the possibility of reducing energy consumption and therefore save costs and expenses.
  • Introducing „WasteNoBite” — An innovative way to track food waste and reduce it in commercial kitchens
    As part of the Co-Innovation Lab, a student group from Hochschule Muenchen develops a groundbreaking system to tackle food waste in commercial kitchens by generating valuable insights on wasted food types through computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
  • Introducing ZERO: A Multifunctional Energy Management System for it@M
    Students from Hochschule München have developed ZERO, a multifunctional energy management system for the IT department of the City of Munich (it@M). This solution aims to track, visualize, and evaluate electricity consumption data of office spaces and devices so the department can make more informed decision-making for enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability. The team collaborated in a cross-functional setting for three months, comprising IT and Business students, to create the solution prototype. They applied the AWS working backward method and worked in an agile Scrum working environment throughout the solution development.
  • PowerMate: Empowering Users To Save Gas By Using Real Time Consumption Tracking
    In a world of increasing gas prices and sustainability concerns, private households are feeling more and more under pressure and are yearning for insights into their consumption and a way to reduce gas usage. For this reason, and to tackle the ubiquitous effects of climate change, the Umweltinstitut Munich has joined forces with Hochschule München to create a game-changing solution for monitoring household gas consumption.
  • UCON simplifies the administration process for the educational event the Digital Impact Day
    Get ready for an electrifying experience at The Digital Impact Day (DID) where students from Mid Sweden University, Munich University of Applied Science, and Tampere University of Applied Science work in interdisciplinary teams to develop impactful solutions for the future.
  • Meet green? How GreenMeet helps to make business meetings more sustainable
    Students from Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Munich University of Applied Sciences joined forces with Salesforce in the winter semester of 2023 to develop a solution which contributes to reducing CO2 emissions: GreenMeet.