Descripción del proyecto
Una tecnología de detección para controlar la contaminación atmosférica
El crecimiento de la población supone un aumento de la densidad de la contaminación atmosférica en las ciudades, lo que es un grave problema tanto para la salud pública como para la economía. Se calcula que más de la mitad de las ciudades de la Unión Europea sobrepasan los límites impuestos por la normativa europea sobre NO2 y contaminación por PM10. A pesar de esto, aún hay pocas estaciones de control de calidad del aire en las ciudades, ya que tienen un alto coste de instalación y mantenimiento. El proyecto MappingAir, financiado con fondos europeos, propone como solución una PaaS (plataforma como servicio) para mapear la contaminación atmosférica urbana. La solución consiste en instalar una gran cantidad de detectores para gases específicos y emplea un innovador algoritmo de posprocesamiento. Los sensores se instalan en farolas para identificar los orígenes desconocidos de la contaminación y sugerir medidas medioambientales eficaces.
Objetivo
Air pollution is a major problem for public health. According to WHO outdoor air pollution kills 4 million people, mostly in cities, every year. That’s more than HIV, malaria and influenza combined. Air pollution is estimated to cost approximately 2% of Gross Domestic Product in developed countries and 5% in developing countries. The problem is only increasing with the unprecedented population growth in cities. In Europe, over one in four and one-third of cities surpass the legal limits set by the EU legislation regarding NO2 and PM10 respectively, pollutants that affect seriously the respiratory system. However, current air quality monitoring stations in cities are spatially very limited due to the high capital and operative expenditures. Consequently, a small number of them are installed in cities mainly used just for air quality regulation. Bettair is a Platform as a Service that permits, for the first time with low investment, to really map air an noise pollution in cities on a previously unimaginable scale based on a large deployment of outstandingly accurate gas sensors by using an advanced post-processing algorithm. The network of autonomous devices is installed in streetlights (or similar) in a dense matrix and assist cities to i) identify unknown pollution sources, and ii) to assess the impact of different environmental actions to identify the most effective ones. Thus, providing unique insights and allowing better decisions to mitigate air pollution and reduce individual exposure. We need the FTI project to internationally bring to market the developed technology, from a prototype to a product, by industrialising the hardware and scaling-up the platform. Two big and two small pilots will be carried out in order to demonstrate the accuracy, the performance, and the benefits of using such a system. The consortium has 2 innovative EU SMEs Bettair Cities and Omniflow; 2 big corporates CISCO and Telecom Italy; and a leading health research centre, ISGlobal.
Ámbito científico
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinepneumology
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
08907 HOSPITALET DE LLOBREGAT
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Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.