AI-enabled air quality monitoring and management

Description

Air pollution is the greatest environmental health threat of our time. 9 out of 10 people globally are living in areas with too high levels of air pollution, and municipal decision-makers are often struggling to identify the best ways of tackling the issue.

With Breeze Technologies’ full-stack air quality monitoring and management solution, municipal administrators can gather hyperlocal air quality data and develop efficient and effective clean air action plans to increase urban livability.

The solution uses IoT-enabled air quality sensors to reliably capture air quality data, centralize air quality data assets in the Environmental Intelligence Cloud and share datasets with urban planners and, optionally, the public.

The solution addresses the following pain points:

• Greatly increase air quality monitoring coverage
• Increase reliability of environmental monitoring
• Decrease maintenance overhead
• Realize cost-savings
• Enable more effective and efficient clean air actions

Solution

Breeze Technologies enables municipal administrations to monitor hyperlocal air quality in a cost-efficient way with lower cost LoRa-enabled sensors and its proprietary Adaptive Cloud Calibration Engine that greatly increases reliability and accuracy of sensor data.

This enables municipalities to tailor their urban planning processes around real-world data and include environmental data in policy decisions. As air pollutants are also climate pollutants, this will also greatly increase the climate action potential of the city.




Key benefits are:

• Real-time and historic air quality data – analyse air quality data over time and based on spatial pollution distribution to identify patterns and likely sources.
• Clean air action recommendations – get recommendations of the most suitable clean air actions to be implemented based on a catalogue of more than 3,500 solutions.
• allow Background information and context – be enabled to analyze air quality data without an environmental degree thanks to an automated rating system based on the eu common air quality index
• allow Automatic calibration – Breeze Technologies takes care of sensor calibration and data plausibility checks, so that the environmental department can directly work with the data.
• allow Automated alerts – get automatically notified in case of (potential) exceedances of legislative air quality thresholds.

Application

1. Pre-configured air quality sensors are installed in the built environment. Thanks to their lower cost, a much denser air quality monitoring network can be created than with traditional solutions. Sensors can also be co-located with citizen hosts.
2. The sensors periodically measure ambient air quality conditions (temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide and dioxide, particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10, ozone, ammonia, sulphur dioxide, volatile organic compounds and others) and then transmit the encrypted data via LoRaWAN® radio transmission to a pre-configured LoRaWAN® gateway within proximity.
3. All gateways listen for and receive sensor radio transmissions, and using a LAN/4G backhaul the LoRaWAN® gateway forwards the encrypted data to the LORIOT Network Server.
4. The received encrypted data is authenticated, and the network server routes the data via output API to the Environmental Intelligence Cloud platform based on Microsoft Azure
5. Decryption and parsing of the data take place at the Environmental Intelligence Cloud, where the data is readable, user-friendly and analysed.
6. The municipal administration and environmental department have access to the Environmental Intelligence Cloud to access calibrated and visualized data, and they can take timely and targeted decisions leading to better outcomes.
7. Optionally, data can be shared through a global air quality citizen platform encompassing already more than 10,000 locations world-wide.