A decentralized, locally-manufactured drinking-water filtration platform combining EBC-certified biochar from Ecuadorian agricultural residues with low-cost IoT sensorization, for rural Andean and coastal communities.
Submitted to UNICEF Venture Fund — Climate Ventures × Health Cohort 2026.
Repository initialized at proposal submission (May 2026). All deliverables will be developed and released here during the 12-month UNICEF Venture Fund investment period (Months 1–12).
- Software / firmware (sensor code, dashboard): MIT License
- Hardware designs and documentation: CC-BY 4.0
- Biochar specification and operational protocols: CC-BY 4.0
All deliverables released by Month 6 per UNICEF Venture Fund open-source licensing requirement.
/biochar-spec/— Pyrolysis parameters, BET, iodine number, adsorption isotherms (Pb²⁺, Cd²⁺, As³⁺, E. coli)/filter-hardware/— 300 L/day household and 2,000 L/day community filter CAD files, BOMs, assembly manuals/iot-firmware/— LoRaWAN sensor firmware (pH, turbidity, conductivity, TDS)/dashboard/— Public water-quality data dashboard/pilot-data/— De-identified field results from Chimborazo/Cotopaxi pilot/docs/— Methodology, peer-reviewed references, EBC certification
- Andrés Novillo Espinosa — CEO & Co-Founder
- Dr. Mario Heredia Salgado — CSO & Co-Founder (PhD Climate Change & Energy Systems, Aveiro)
- Jonathan Coba — Plant Lead & Reactor Engineer
- Atmosfair gGmbH (Germany) — CDR offtake & MRV validation
- EPMAPS (Quito Public Water Utility) — wastewater pyrolysis pilot
- Carbon13 (Cambridge, UK), AceleraLatam — seed investors
- MAATE (Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment) — climate policy advisor
- "remove" CDR Accelerator (Europe) — Cohort 2, 2025