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HU Philadelphia - News and Events Using eyes in the sky for sustainability: HU research team to harness AI, satellite imagery to create Lean, Smart cities According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 90 percent of the world’s population breathes polluted air. WHO estimates that about 7 million people die annually from exposure to polluted air, deaths triggered by strokes, lung cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and respiratory infections, including pneumonia. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, exposure to polluted air, water, and soil caused more than 9 million premature deaths in 2015 – three times more than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined. Other pollution forms, such as noise and light pollution, can cause stress, anxiety, headaches, and sleep loss resulting in decreased productivity. These alarming statistics recently led a team at HU to begin work toward real solutions aimed at changing the troubling pollution picture. The team intends to develop a blueprint for cities to minimize waste sources in electricity, transportation, water, and more. Pictured left is Dr. Iheb Abdellatif, information technology and management profess. Pictured right is John Quigley, Director of the Center for E3 at HU. Dr. Iheb Abdellatif, information technology and management professor, and John Quigley, lecturer and director for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Economy (E3) at HU, were awarded an HU Presidential Research Grant to work with students to design and create methodologies, tools and systems that will enable Lean, Smart Cities; that is, cities that use data and information technologies used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently to reduce pollution and their climate footprint. To help design the work and provide the most benefit to cities and towns interested in reducing their carbon footprint, HU has enlisted the Pennsylvania Municipal League, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents participating Pennsylvania cities, boroughs, townships, home rule communities and towns that all share The League’s municipal policy interests. Sustainability is a key focus for the organization, and The League is excited to work with HU on the project, said League Executive Director Rick Schuettler. The League is offering advice to the HU research team on how the tools can be made more useful to municipalities. “The Pennsylvania Municipal League is pleased to have partnered with Harrisburg University on the Smart, Lean Cities research project,” Schuettler said. “Technology is of utmost importance to our PA communities for its role in improving the efficiency of citizen services.” Car detection using satellite imagery and AI So how will it work? To accomplish its mission, the group intends to work along two thrusts: T1 – Design a LEAN methodology for Smart Cities: As mentioned above, minimizing waste sources will reduce pollution and save many lives. In this thrust, the team plans to use the LEAN manufacturing methodology (LEAN is the concept of efficient manufacturing/operations that grew out of the Toyota Production System in the middle of the 20th century that, among other goals, seeks to reduce the waste sources in manufacturing) in order to minimize the city’s waste sources. The main objective of the proposed LEAN Smart City methodology is to optimize the people, resource, effort and energy of cities toward creating value for the citizen. T2 – Develop a LEAN Smart City Platform. In this thrust they will propose to integrate the LEAN methodology proposed in T1 through the implementation of a LEAN Smart City Platform (LSCP). The proposed LSCP will be a computer-based tool that will collect, process and analyze satellite imagery using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The platform will also use additional heterogeneous data sources (city sensors, crowdsourcing, governmental databases, etc.) to help process satellite imagery. To start, the team will use satellite imagery to address light pollution, traffic, resource management, and urban development and planning. Below are the initial issues the group will cover by using satellite imagery: Light pollution: By using satellite data, the team will evaluate extent, intensity and quality of illumination and evaluate whether this illimitation is poor, enough or excess, helping reduce electricity waste. Traffic monitoring: Analyzing satellite images of roads during traffic hours will help cities understand how many trucks, cars and other engines exist in each region. Consolidating this information with ground data collected from air quality sensors will provide cities better understanding of air pollution sources (traffic, factories, agriculture activities, etc.) and improve air quality predictions. By doing so, the team will help Smart Cities reduce transportation waste. Resource management: Satellite images could be used to track, and measure resources managed by cities such us, water reservoirs, oil reservoirs, etc. By doing so, the group will help Smart Cities natural resource waste. Urban development and planning: Nighttime satellite images of land areas could help city managers analyze development of urban clusters for better planning of new urban centers. This will allow SMART Cities to reduce their waste in terms of infrastructural resources (transportation systems, telecommunication netwo...