Smart City Expo Grand Via Venue Barcelona, Spain Nov 13, 2018 - Nov 15, 2018 Making cities more breathable starts by measuring, analyzing and understanding the data of air pollution. Understanding Air Quality Starts with Understanding the Weather. The amount of air pollution also depends on meteorological conditions. To a certain extent nature's own air conditioning can keep the air clean. Wind mixes the gases and dilutes them and rain washes the dust and other substances to the ground. Vaisala's Computer Vision is a form of Artificial Intelligence that enables a computer to analyze and identify objects from visual data. Vaisala's system focuses on transport infrastructure and is able to automatically produce information that asset management and maintenance teams can use to assist in decision making. Come and meet us at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona to hear more how to make cities more breathable. You'll find us hall 2 booth A 192! Visit exhbition site Locate 41.354646, 2.1273619
What Does Air Quality Monitoring Actually Mean The amount of air pollution also depends on meteorological conditions. To a certain extent nature's own air conditioning can keep the air clean. Wind mixes the gases and dilutes them and rain washes the dust and other substances to the ground. But when strong winds can move pollutants hundreds of kilometers away, under weak wind circumstances they can accumulate to certain location causing increased air pollution. Rain can also pollute the environment if acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid fall to the ground from the atmosphere. That is why simply measuring air pollution alone does not tell us very much. To be able to understand why air quality can vary from day to day, we must measure meteorological conditions as well, such as temperature, rain and humidity.
Further Reading on Air Quality Vaisala’s Technology and Air Quality Know-How Will Help Cities Become Smarter and Cleaner Vaisala is a project partner in the CITYZER project. The project develops new digital services and products to support decision-making processes related to weather and air quality in cities, answering to the increasing challenges that poor air quality poses globally. The results of the project are utilized in the Helsinki and Nanjing Air Quality Testbeds. Read more Vaisala at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Kenya The fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) was held at Nairobi, Kenya March 11-15. Attended by heads of states and environmental ministers, and shadowed by the aftermath of the tragic Ethiopian Airlines crash, the meeting brought together thousands of delegates and participants to discuss under the theme “Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production”. Read more Air quality sensors and modelling draw audiences in Peru During a recent trip in Peru earlier this year, Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) joined forces in arranging a number of seminars in the capital city of Lima presenting some latest advances in tools for air quality management. Practical arrangements for the seminars were mastered by Vaisala’s local representative Mor Ltd. Seminars were held at the Environmental Ministry SENAM, Environmental Agency OEFA, Meteorological Agency SENAMHI, City of Lima as well as the National Engineering University. Read more Air Quality Network Pilot Progressing in Nanjing The construction work to build up a new air quality network pilot in the city of Nanjing in the Yangtze River Delta in China is progressing at a good pace. Last year, Vaisala announced a project to build a groundbreaking air quality network pilot in Nanjing . Read more
Vaisala’s Technology and Air Quality Know-How Will Help Cities Become Smarter and Cleaner Vaisala is a project partner in the CITYZER project. The project develops new digital services and products to support decision-making processes related to weather and air quality in cities, answering to the increasing challenges that poor air quality poses globally. The results of the project are utilized in the Helsinki and Nanjing Air Quality Testbeds. Read more
Vaisala at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Kenya The fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) was held at Nairobi, Kenya March 11-15. Attended by heads of states and environmental ministers, and shadowed by the aftermath of the tragic Ethiopian Airlines crash, the meeting brought together thousands of delegates and participants to discuss under the theme “Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production”. Read more
Air quality sensors and modelling draw audiences in Peru During a recent trip in Peru earlier this year, Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) joined forces in arranging a number of seminars in the capital city of Lima presenting some latest advances in tools for air quality management. Practical arrangements for the seminars were mastered by Vaisala’s local representative Mor Ltd. Seminars were held at the Environmental Ministry SENAM, Environmental Agency OEFA, Meteorological Agency SENAMHI, City of Lima as well as the National Engineering University. Read more
Air Quality Network Pilot Progressing in Nanjing The construction work to build up a new air quality network pilot in the city of Nanjing in the Yangtze River Delta in China is progressing at a good pace. Last year, Vaisala announced a project to build a groundbreaking air quality network pilot in Nanjing . Read more
Download Air Quality brochure Vaisala combines data from high performing air quality sensor networks with important weather parameters. That allows us to forecast the air pollution. Download Vaisala Air quality brochure
What Does Computer Vision Services Actually Mean Computer Vision and Machine Learning are emerging tools that are now available to your organization to help you to realize a step change in how you deal with your operations – opening doors to a high level of accessible information only dreamed of before.
Further Reading on Computer Vision How road condition analysis with computer vision is changing cities and transportation departments Road infrastructure is among the most important public assets we have. Essentially, modern society doesn’t work without them. And yet, many cities, counties, and transportation departments struggle with budget and labor limitations that cause their roadways to suffer. These challenges affect us all. For example, the American Automotive Association estimates that U.S. drivers spend $3 billion a year fixing pothole damage to their vehicles. Naturally, bad road conditions cause public safety problems as well. Fortunately, machine learning, computer vision, and other technologies have matured so quickly that serious improvements can be made to road maintenance practices — relieving transportation departments of existing cost and labor burdens, improving maintenance, and maintaining higher safety standards. Read more New Solution for Visual Data Management at Construction Sites Modern tools can support organizations and the ways of working in performing better. Construction, particularly infrastructure construction, has been considered to be quite a traditional industry. Albeit, if one took a closer look, it would be clear that this is not the case anymore. Vaisala RoadAI service is developed to support data collection for road inspection. However, RoadAI is now playing a bigger role as a situational awareness tool and documentation bank to track the progress of a project in one of the biggest construction sites in Finland. This is due to the fact the service has been evolving and gaining new features since day one, now enabling the users to use drone footage and 360 panoramas in addition to videos recorded manually and from a vehicle. Read more Keeping an Eye on the Road The speed at which new technology changes our daily lives has reached breakneck levels. From our homes, to our places of work, to our public spaces, technology is driving major shifts in the way we tackle problems of all types. Read more Video Analysis with Computer Vision – Ultimate Format for Traffic Sign Inventories Automation is interesting in almost every repetitive or simple task; traffic sign mapping and inventories are an excellent use case to be automated. Digital maps are getting more and more important in the days of connected vehicles and navigation, and smart phones have become a norm. Combining these ideas, with Vaisala Road AI technology turns mobile video into an ultimate format for vehicle based computer vision in various use cases. Vaisala’s computer vision team has developed one the most advanced traffic sign mapping systems to support asset management and traffic system safety monitoring. The RoadAI system is for those who need to monitor signs and traffic arrangements with a simple and mobile video recording system. Read more
How road condition analysis with computer vision is changing cities and transportation departments Road infrastructure is among the most important public assets we have. Essentially, modern society doesn’t work without them. And yet, many cities, counties, and transportation departments struggle with budget and labor limitations that cause their roadways to suffer. These challenges affect us all. For example, the American Automotive Association estimates that U.S. drivers spend $3 billion a year fixing pothole damage to their vehicles. Naturally, bad road conditions cause public safety problems as well. Fortunately, machine learning, computer vision, and other technologies have matured so quickly that serious improvements can be made to road maintenance practices — relieving transportation departments of existing cost and labor burdens, improving maintenance, and maintaining higher safety standards. Read more
New Solution for Visual Data Management at Construction Sites Modern tools can support organizations and the ways of working in performing better. Construction, particularly infrastructure construction, has been considered to be quite a traditional industry. Albeit, if one took a closer look, it would be clear that this is not the case anymore. Vaisala RoadAI service is developed to support data collection for road inspection. However, RoadAI is now playing a bigger role as a situational awareness tool and documentation bank to track the progress of a project in one of the biggest construction sites in Finland. This is due to the fact the service has been evolving and gaining new features since day one, now enabling the users to use drone footage and 360 panoramas in addition to videos recorded manually and from a vehicle. Read more
Keeping an Eye on the Road The speed at which new technology changes our daily lives has reached breakneck levels. From our homes, to our places of work, to our public spaces, technology is driving major shifts in the way we tackle problems of all types. Read more
Video Analysis with Computer Vision – Ultimate Format for Traffic Sign Inventories Automation is interesting in almost every repetitive or simple task; traffic sign mapping and inventories are an excellent use case to be automated. Digital maps are getting more and more important in the days of connected vehicles and navigation, and smart phones have become a norm. Combining these ideas, with Vaisala Road AI technology turns mobile video into an ultimate format for vehicle based computer vision in various use cases. Vaisala’s computer vision team has developed one the most advanced traffic sign mapping systems to support asset management and traffic system safety monitoring. The RoadAI system is for those who need to monitor signs and traffic arrangements with a simple and mobile video recording system. Read more
Download RoadAI brochure Vaisala RoadAI (Road Artificial Intelligence) is a service for efficient infrastructure management. The service supports maintenance processes, as well as provides better means to monitor and coordinate construction projects.
