Features that combine Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Libraries of Circular Data
Open source public libraries of healthy and circular products passports, of needs in reused products or secondary raw materials, and of transformation logistics
Digital Bank of Materials
Functions for characterizing asset deposits, inviting local players, and calculating the circular signature of the assets managed in the digital bank
Resource Management
Functions that rely on an expert system and AI technologies, to create circular ecosystems of reuse or upcycling, and calculate the balance of waste and CO2 avoided, as well as the economic balance
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An smart technology unique in the world
5 steps to manage your real estate assetsĀ
in circular economy with myUpcyclea
Step 1 :
Products manufacturing
Your manufacturers use the Passports module to access an “open source” library of healthy, circular products updated by manufacturers around the world.
These thousands of circular passports are rated by Upcyclea according to 5 environmental criteria (non-toxicity, circularity, carbon & energy, water, social) in order to guarantee the quality of products that manufacturers will want to take back at the end of their use.
Your project manager chooses a construction system andĀ selects the circular products that will turn your building into a digital materials banks.Ā
He will be able to measure the future circular signature of the building: its carbon footprint, its degree of circularity, its rate of circularity and reuse, and its residual economic value. He will use this signature to meet your environmental requirements, and adjust products if necessary.
Step 2 :
Design
Step 3Ā :
Construction or Renovation
The construction company imports or enters the deposits of products characterized by their passports, in your digital material bank, as the construction site progresses.
With the circular signature, the project manager checks that, even with variants, the result complies with the environmental requirements of the project. On delivery, you will know precisely the carbon footprint of the building, as well as the added value induced by the residual economic values of its components.
As the delivered building has its own digital bank of materials, your Resource Manager will use the management functions to valorize resources as they come to the end of their useful life, through reuse or upcycling, thanks to the ecosystem proposals suggested by the AI technologies of myUpcyclea.
By also characterizing other existing buildings, Resource Management’s actions will increase the market value of your assets.
Step 4 :
Resource Management
Step 5 :
Deconstruction
If the building to be deconstructed does not already have its digital material bank, the Resources diagnostician uses the Passports and the Inventory function to better characterize the deposits.
Thanks to the libraries of transformers and reuse/upcycling needs, and thanks to the algorithms of the Management function, the Resources diagnostician can propose the best ecosystems for resource valorization, find opportunities for reuse/upcycling, and measure the quantities of CO2 and waste avoided.
Unique Smart Technology
Collective and Collaborative
Circular Passport
and Nomenclature
myUpcyclea uses a circular passport format inspired by the European standard developed by BAMB. This serves as an identity card for used resources and, combined with a universal material nomenclature, allows the identified deposits to be brought closer to market needs for repaired products and secondary raw materials.
Semi-formal language
and Big data
myUpcyclea offers a specific process for characterizing materials, products and transformations based on a semi-formal description of the information. This ensures an easier vision of potential ecosystems and allows data to be better taken into account by our intelligent algorithms.
Reliability
The accessibility of Google Cloud Platform servers is guaranteed with a monthly uptime percentage of 99.95%. myUpcyclea guarantees the Customer access to the platform with a monthly uptime percentage of 95%.
Deep learning
The ecosystems created in your myUpcyclea library will be used to continuously improve the recommendations and propose the most relevant ecosystems through learning neural networks and heuristic rules derived from more than 12 years of expertise in circular economics.
Software and hardware
myUpcyclea is based on software developed entirely by Upcyclea’s teams in Paris, Nantes and Tallinn (Estonia). This gives us maximum control over the software components, while remaining independent of any third party company. Upcyclea’s specialists perform all development, administration, database management and security tasks in-house.
Artificial Intelligence
We are constantly improving intelligent algorithms capable of exploiting the semi-formal descriptions entered in myUpcyclea, as well as several relevance criteria (economic profitability, carbon impact, etc.), to help myUpcyclea operators in building ecosystems. Our work also consists in combining this intelligence with the knowledge base of transformation processes, resulting from the Cradle to Cradle missions that we have been carrying out since 2007 in France.
Hosting and privacy management
Upcyclea provides data hosting, maintenance and security for its SaaS platform. Upcyclea ensures the activation of security protocols for authentication, authorizations, and cryptography; as well as standard protections against XSS and SQL code injections into forms. The data is stored on the servers of the Google Cloud Platform company, located in the European Union.
Data is encrypted when it passes through Google Cloud Platform’s internal networks, and when it is stored in database tables, temporary files and backups.
Each SQL Cloud instance includes a network firewall, network access control to database instances with permissions.
