Public entities: Local public councils (Environmental Directorates, Public Health Directorates, Urbanism and Territorial Planning Directorates), Environmental Agencies. Directive Ministry of Health (models of air-viruses in urban areas)
Private entities: real estate societies developers, consulting and design of civil and industrial, constructions companies, travel construction bags, law firms, environmental, protection NGOs, end users.
For the authorities: studies and models to combat pollution and spread of pathogens and their effectiveness in the external environment
For citizens: ensuring a clean environment, fast intervention services intervention in case of need, monitoring various parameters through environmental sensors
For the community: identification of air quality risk areas, incident prevention, reduce the risk of spreading pathogens
At a glance
According to statistical data published by the UN, in 2019, the world's population is 7.6 billion of which 4.2 billion live in urban areas and the remaining 3.4 billion in rural areas. According to the same study, by 2050, the population will exceed 9.8 billion of which 6.7 billion will live in urban and 3.1 in rural areas. Recent studies estimate that by 2050, the percentage of the urban population will reach 70%.
Pollution is one of the great problems of the metropolises. According to an analysis published by the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 90% of the world's urban population breathes air with much higher levels of pollutants than the recommended thresholds and about 7 million people die annually from the effects of air pollution of which more than 500,000 are children under 5 years of age. Air pollution is the main cause of decreased immunity, a respiratory and eye diseases, lung cancer, acute and chronic bronchitis and asthma attacks, cardiovascular disease . The main affected are children and pregnant women (including pregnancies) and the elderly.
A major danger to public health is the spread of microbes and viruses but also the multiplication of the main vectors of transmission. The spread of viruses, especially in urban areas, can quickly turn into a pandemic. The most eloquent example is the COVID-19 pandemic. Since Dec 2019 and until now, over 4,900,000 people have been infected with COVID-19 of which over 300,000 have died (for updated information on the number of infected and deaths globally you can access https: //www.worldometers .info / coronavirus)
Worldwide, there are 4037 cities with over 100,000 inhabitants and over 10,000 under 100,000 inhabitants. In Romania there are 319 cities of which 25 with over 100,000 inhabitants. Currently all the cities of the world occupy approximately 1% of the dry surface of the planet.
Applicability of our solution: in all urban areas regardless of their location or size.
Using data from Copernicus and its fleet of Sentinel satellites, temporary sensors will be installed at key points to receive confirmation and live feeds about aerosol agents. As a satellite data packet we will use Aerosol Optical Depth to determine possible areas that will require ground scans. After that the results of Aerosol Optical Depth will overlap with those on the ground in order to accurately assess the impact of pathogens. The use of geospatial data and ground data, the analysis of pollutant dissemination through air currents depending on the urban architecture will lead to analyzes and reports that will be the basis of pollution reduction plans and implicitly the factors that affect the health of the population, respectively they lead to the weakening of the immune system and affect the respiratory system.
Time series of surface concentrations of the key air pollutants (NO2, PM2.5, PM10 and ozone) are useful to assess their variability and to monitor possible trends in their evolution. The values are representative of areas of 10 km x 10 km and cannot reproduce local effects due to the immediate proximity of sources; they represent the ‘urban background’, which corresponds to what is measured in a quiet area (for instance a large park) in or around the respective cities. For more detailed information, please consult your local air quality agency, especially in the case of a pollution peak or a pollution alert.
Altogether, these timeseries provide information on how background air pollution has evolved over the weeks since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.
1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION is a system for forecasting air pollution (chemical, biological), assessing its impact on the health of the population and warning responsible factors, in conjunction with short, medium and long-term urban development plans in urban areas.
1. sustainable development of the city in terms of air quality, improvement of urban architecture
2. optimization of air flow routes in situations of excessive pollution and better measurement of air quality and rapid detection of pollution incidents (chemical, biological) of air with substances from industrial type sources
3. preserving air quality by strengthening the intervention capacity of the competent authorities
4. the possibility of taking active measures in cases of pollution, rapid identification of polluters, contaminated areas and indirectly, possibility of simulating the area of spread and acting as a priority in the respective areas.
5. urban architectural improvement with the environment
6. support for plans to reduce and prevent the spread of pathogens (COFID-19) in the urban environment, identification of high-risk areas
7. reducing air pollution and thus increasing the level of health of the population
Measurable objectives
1. a real-time monitoring of pollution and street-level and mapping the way of spreading in the urban environment according to the architecture
2. action plans against chemical or biological pollution
3. prevention plans in case of chemical-biological incident
4. simulation of scenarios regarding the spread of pollutants depending on weather conditions.
1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION is a system for forecasting air pollution (chemical, biological), assessing its impact on the health of the population and warning the responsible factors, in correlation with short, medium and long-term urban development plans in the urban areas. . Also, 1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION system is a particularly useful decision-making tool, with a complex basis of georeferenced deterministic information for documenting, preventing and reducing the danger of chronic and accidental degradation of air quality, both for the benefit of the population and the environment. Bringing together le system monitoring, forecasting, impact study, application and planning in the field of air quality, leads to the creation of an instrument of development in urban air quality management.
Predictive analysis model will reduce not only the risks but also the costs and will contribute substantially to the quality of daily life.
The system interface will be designed in accordance with the needs of the users and to create a friendly geospatial information management environment depending on privileges, users logged into the system can:
1. Access, view, query and spatially analyze the project database.
2. Consult in quasi-real time graphic, cartographic and multimedia products made specifically for air quality management in Bucharest (Ex: maps with the distribution of pollutant concentrations, their spatial and temporal evolution).
3. It issues fortunes andrecommends measures to improve air quality and limit harmful effects on the population.
4. Development of methods and methodologies for extracting useful parameters from data provided by satellite platforms in urban development applications, smart city, climatology, surveillance of areas with anthropogenic impact.
5. Development and implementation of information systems, based on mapping and remote-detection data, for monitoring and generating models
6. Increase city sustainability. Use of 1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION and teledetection techniques to determine the accumulation of pollutants, accidental pollution.
8. Development and testing of methods and algorithms for the fusion of spatial data from different data sources (remotecontrol systems, cartographic documents, terrestrial observation systems, etc.), and the generation of urban improvement models to increase air quality.
9. Making up-to-date digital maps of land cover/use, spatial-map and differentthematic maps based on satellite data and development of algorithms and methods for spatial information spatialization.
10. Development of geospatial data infrastructures using satellite information and ground data. Modernization and refinement ofhardware and software systems for the processing, analysis and interpretation of geospatial data through the lens of street-level dispersion of pollutants.
1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION is a complementary solution of existing monitoring systems, with the help of which to establish areas of excessive pollution, their dynamics and ensure the provision of data, correct and in real time, to the decision-makers for:
- taking rapid corrective measures to limit the pollution
- elaboration of prevention strategies and plans on the formation of new areas by predicting patterns of stationary flows of pollutants in urban areas
1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION will be a system for monitoring the outside air of the urban environment and reducing pathogens in the urban environment by making statistics and simulations as in the following experimental:
1. creating multidimensional maps of the city as in Figure 1
2. introduces zonal/ regional/national/European national for regional climate modelers, measurement/monitoring European, masur area of real-time airflows and analysis of pollutant dispersion at the zonal level (streets. neighborhoods)
3. synthesis, analysis and reporting of air current properties and air quality at ground level.
The existence and availability of high-quality, quickly accessible, secure and protected geo-information is the basis of a rational decision-making system. Harmonizing geospatial information with ground data will lead to an interoperable working platform for meteorological, architectural, physic-chemical analyses that contribute to the accelerated realization of resilient and suspensive cities
1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION
Phase 1
Step 1: Making soft primary data
Step 2: Installation of sensor system and telemetry in the target areas
Step 3: testate and calibration
Step 4: Compare data with history
Step 5: import geo-satellite data
Phase 2
- internal analysis and preliminary reports / elimination of possible errors
Phase 3
- Development of AI algorithms for predictability
The architecture and method of integrating the data obtained from the sensors at the stage level with the data provided by the satellites, single system, lead to a better knowledge of the transmission of polluters and pathogens, taking a quick action based on accurate data and in real time against pollution and pathogens in the air..
1. The modular concept will allow you not only to maintain easily but also to equip you with any kind of air quality monitoring sensor.
2. 1 POINT | 1 SOLLUTION not only responds to the challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic but can be used later the problems related to air quality and the possibility of spreading possible pandemics in the urban environment being on the international public agenda of for many years. Studies have revealed that the main way of spreading viruses, COVID 19 is no exception, is by air.
3. We have as 1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION can be at the top of urban monitoring solutions but especially it can be the basis of a sustainable and resilient urbanization.
PROJECT REALIZATION SCHEME:
1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION fully meets the requirements specified in the competition documentation.
System components:
1. Sensor system
2. Software development
3. Create databases
4. Implementation of the project
Predictive analysis model will reduce not only the risks but also the costs and will contribute substantially to the quality of daily life. A combination of ground- and satellite-based tools provides a unique view of the globe to better understand the impacts of air pollution events. These measurements help scientists, researchers, and decision makers in forecasting events and assessing conditions in near real-time to make timely decisions.
The system interface will be designed in accordance with the needs of the users and to create a friendly geospatial information management environment.
1. Access, view, query and spatially analyze the project database.
2. Consult in quasi-real time graphic, cartographic and multimedia products made specifically for air quality management in Bucharest (Ex: maps with the distribution of pollutant concentrations, their spatial and temporal evolution).
3. It issues fortunes andrecommends measures to improve air quality and limit harmful effects on the population.
4. Development of methods and methodologies for extracting useful parameters from data provided by satellite platforms in urban development applications, smart city, climatology, surveillance of areas with anthropogenic impact.
5. Development and implementation of information systems, based on mapping and remote-detection data, for monitoring and generating models
6. Increase city sustainability. Use of 1 POINT | 1 SOLUTION and teledetection techniques to determine the accumulation of pollutants, accidental pollution.
8. Development and testing of methods and algorithms for the fusion of spatial data from different data sources (remotecontrol systems, cartographic documents, terrestrial observation systems, etc.), and the generation of urban improvement models to increase air quality.
9. Making up-to-date digital maps of land cover/use, spatial-map and differentthematic maps based on satellite data and development of algorithms and methods for spatial information spatialization.
10. Development of geospatial data infrastructures using satellite information and ground data. Modernization and refinement ofhardware and software systems for the processing, analysis and interpretation of geospatial data through the lens of street-level dispersion of pollutants.
1 POINT system 1 SOLUTION is a very useful tool for decision making, with a complex database of georeferenced deterministic information to document, prevent and reduce the danger of chronic and accidental degradation of air quality, both for the benefit of the population and the environment. Bringing together in a single system: monitoring, forecasting, impact study, application and planning in the field of air quality, leads to the creation of a tool for sustainable development in air quality management in urban areas.
The architecture and the way of integrating the data obtained from the sensors located at street level with the data provided by the satellites, in a single system, lead to a better knowledge of the transmission of pollutants and pathogens, taking quick measures based on accurate and real-time data against air pollution and pathogens.
IMPACT
Economic impact: The European Environment Agency has estimated that in Romania, approximately 28,000 premature deaths were associated with air pollution in 2013. It is estimated that, in total, external health-related costs resulting from air pollution in Romania amount to over EUR 10 billion / year. Direct economic costs refer to 4.5 million working days lost each year due to air pollution-related diseases, with associated costs for employers of EUR 257 million / year, for healthcare over EUR 31 million / year and for agriculture (crop losses) amounting to EUR 106 million / year.
Social impact: The social impact of the I point | 1 solution project is given by the reduction of pathogens in public spaces subject to decontamination and hence a healthier and more productive community. Recent studies in the areas most affected by the pandemic have highlighted the fact that there is a definite relationship between the COVID 19 pandemic and air pollution. I point | 1 solution will be an important element of the strategy to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic community. Reducing health spending and growth - healthier people mean more productive people, are other factors of immediate impact on society.
Environmental impact: I point | 1 solution will support the resilience and sustainable development of cities by constant and real-time monitoring of air currents, humidity, temperature, atmospheric pressure, etc. in urban areas and mapping the dispersion of chemical or biological pollutants
Impact in the community: a high zonal rating in terms of air quality is a benefit for real estate developers or city managers who have as their main concern the quality of life in the urban environment.
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/european-air-quality-information-support-covid-19-crisis
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/air-quality
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/health-and-air-quality-data-pathfinder
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/data