Videoclip of a Trendinspector demo.

In The Trend Inspector-project are we applying the crowdsourcing method on the clean energy-field. It is a way of tracing how trends and tendencies are succeeding each other through analysing huge amounts of data from e.g. queries from different search engines, and how they vary over time.

We have made presets for specific queries on relevant subjects like energy saving or solar power. The Trend Inspector does not put questions itself, it is only delivering statistics from queries people from all over the world have already formulated.

The Trend Inspector has borrowed its appearance from a coffee-table. The idea is that stakeholders and policy-makers from the energy-field should gather around the table, drinking coffee and discussing environment- or energy-related questions, and using the tables predicting abilities as decision basis.

In this clip Emmanuel Frécon shows Maria Fahlström, from Ericsson, how it works.