JUMP, an online crowdsourcing community, is hosting a webinar Thursday, May 19, 2016, from 1-2 p.m. for those who want to learn more about JUMP calls for innovation. Winning applicants will have an opportunity to further develop their ideas with participating national laboratories and industry partners via in-kind technical support worth up to $300,000, if approved.
Register for the webinar here.
Launched by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2015, JUMP is co-hosted by five U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories and some of the top private companies in the buildings sector. JUMP stands for Join in the discussion, Unveil innovation, Motivate transformation and Promote technology-to-market. The goal is to broaden the pool of people from whom DOE seeks ideas and to move these ideas more quickly to the marketplace.
The participating national laboratories are Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and ORNL. Together the laboratories offer the JUMP crowdsourcing platform for innovators — particularly small entrepreneurs — to present ideas for new technologies for energy-efficient buildings to private- and public-sector leaders in research and development. Additionally, JUMP includes opportunities for all users to comment and vote on the posted ideas. This community discussion helps DOE, the labs and industry partners gauge the market’s interest in the topic and potential solutions.
This initiative is funded by DOE’s Building Technologies Office.
The following businesses and laboratories are asking for calls for innovation:
- Clean Energy Trust (CET) and Argonne are seeking ideas to identify an accurate and stable humidity sensor technology that promises performance improvements over the market’s existing sensors. The winning submission will be sponsored to participate in a “mini-accelerator” program by CET.
- Building Robotics and LBNL are seeking ideas to design and develop a proof of concept mean radiant temperature sensor. Building Robotics is sponsoring a $3,000 cash award for the winning submission.
- Emerson Climate Technologies and ORNL are seeking ideas to develop a new air flow measurement tool or system to measure total system airflow across an indoor ducted furnace, heat pump or central air conditioning system. Emerson is sponsoring a $3,000 cash award for the winning submission.