GreenIoT

News

Our GreenIoT project has received 10Msek from Vinnova, together with another 10Msek co-funding from Uppsala Kommun and industrial partners. The second phase of the project will start on September 2015. We will turn Uppsala into a smart city in the coming two years (more).

12-14 Oct 2016: Johan Rosén (Uppsala Kommun) and Edith Ngai (Uppsala University) gave a talk at the UniverCITY Partnership Conference in Stockholm (Talk).

Nov 2016: A web based visualisation tool for air pollution is up with prediction function.

Jan 2017: We have published an article "Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities: Interoperability and Open Data" in IEEE Internet Computing, Jan 2017 (Article).

21 Feb 2017: Our poster "GreenIoT: Cloud-based data fusion for smart cities" has been presented in EWSN 2017 conference (Poster).

3 Mar 2017: We have successfully mounted a CO and NO2 sensor on a bus together with Gamla Uppsala Buss Company (picture1) (picture2).

6 Mar 2017: We have successfully mounted three PM2.5 and PM10 sensors on lampposts in city center of Uppsala (picture1) (picture2)(picture3).

8 Mar 2017: Demo for visualisation of sensor data is available (Demo for bus sensor) (Demo for Kungsgatan sensor).

10 Mar 2017: We presented the GreenIoT project in SciFest in Uppsala (picture1) (picture2).

3 Jun 2017: We presented the GreenIoT project in the Green Week at Nobel Museum, Stockholm (picture1) (picture2).

16 Oct 2017: Markus Hidell (KTH) presents the GreenIoT project in the Eurocities meeting, Uppsala.

Objectives

An Energy-Efficient Internet-of-Things Platform for Open Data and Sustainable Developmemnt.

To develop an energy-efficient Green IoT platform that enables green and sustainable growth of society targeting for improved environment and economical growth.

To investigate Interent-of-Things, cloud computing, and green networking technology to support open data for the benefits of reduced energy consumption, air pollution and traffic congestion in major cities of Sweden.

To engage companies and general public for IoT innovations, develop products and services based on the open data and explore opportunities for IoT business worldwide.

Overview

Background

Emissions from motor vehicles have become a major source of air pollution in world's large and medium sized cities. Many large cities experience serious air pollution (e.g., carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and particles) and greenhouse gas emission (GHG), which are made worse by increasing traffic congestion. Our overall goal is to investigate an innovative energy-efficient and information-centric infrastructure for Internet-of-Things (IoT), which connects heterogeneous wireless sensing and mobile devices to collect environmental data and integrates them for sustainable urban and transportation planning. Decisions can be made based on the sensing data for redirecting traffic to relieve traffic congestion and thus reduce air pollution. Our Green IoT platform provides a systematic solution that enables green and sustainable growth of the society. It supports innovations and applications for addressing societal challenges, such as smart transport, sustainable city, and efficient energy, in the Digital Agenda and EU Horizon 2020.