1. Team 4 Ricardo Acedo de Talavera Alberto López Castilla Santiago Márquez Vázquez (0415520) Lappeenranta University of Technology CS30A7400 Software and Application Innovation

2. Need Lahti and Lappeenranta receive around 350 exchange students from all around the world every year, plus foreign master’s students. Most of them don’t want to come back to their countries without seing Northern Lights, and usually they are eager to see some of them. Many students from the meant cities are just for a while because they are in exchange programmes, so they do not own any TV or radio. Because of that, they are never aware of when Northern Lights are taking place. They need to be informed.

3. Approach Make people know our product exists creating a Facebook page and a MobileApp. Sending an alert everytime there is a probability of seeing the Northern Lights. The customer decides what kind of alert he wants to receive: sms, e-mail or notifications with the mobile apps. To make advantage of our product is as simple as register in our webpage. Create a new open data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute and combine it with other open data sets, like Digitraffic and Matka, to take the best way to see the Northern Lights. Our best feature: easy and free for the costumer.

4. Cost Technology costs: Computer hardware, computer software (information in XML format), website development and maintenance, servers, security measures, IT consulting. Administrative costs: No cost. For using the weather open data we only need free registration. Service costs: client messages. Wages: workers compensation.

5. Benefits Economic benefits: Make profit out of these sms and e-mails including advertisement. Voluntary donation from the users. Social benefits: Our goal is to help those foreign students, local people and tourists to not lose the opportunity of seeing the Northern Lights before leaving Finland, and our service will save their time looking for the weather forecast.