Lahti Citicap Monetization Platform

A platform for Personal carbon trading

Global warming is our common challenge. The city of Lahti is a forerunner in efforts to reduce carbon footprint and it has set a target to be a carbon-neutral city by 2025. To achieve that goal there are several initiatives going on, one of which is CitiCAP. A platform for personal carbon trading.

SPEED TO MARKET INCREASED

Lahti was able to bring the CitiCAP into the market very fast.

CUSTOMER-CENTRIC SERVICES ENABLED

Personalized service to everyone in the city of Lahti.

End of manual work

Automated platform to be able to scale the CitiCAP service.

"The application developed in the CitiCAP project is a great example of a functioning collaboration without which we would not have been able to get this far"

Anna Huttunen

Project Manager

Challenge

BUILD A personal CARBON TRADing PLATFORM Quickly

The idea of the city of Lahti was unique. Lahti aimed to build a platform that gathers mobility data, convert it to a personal carbon footprint, and utilize it also for personal credits at the carbon trading marketplace. The schedule was tight and such a platform did not exist.

Solution

Flexibility with a data-driven monetization platform

The core of the CitiCAP is a platform for managing the user carbon balance, calculating the carbon emissions for each trip, and supporting the carbon emission trade.

Collects the mobility data received from CitiCAP mobile app
Converts the mobility data to carbon emissions using defined rules for each means of mobility.
Maintains a personal carbon emission balance on the user account
Converts the carbon emissions to virtual money for CitiCAP carbon trade.