Can AI help make fine dust tangible?

Awareness

Fine dust, as the term implies, is almost imperceptible. Nevertheless, it has a significant impact on health. Thanks to sensors and measuring instruments, we have a lot of information about the presence and development of the amount in the air. Using this data, Skyler has developed an application to assist citizens in understanding air quality and its trends. The project was carried out on behalf of the High Tech Embedded Software Professorship and builds on the Smart City Twin project, which explores digital twinning in the urban context.

Within this project, the focus was on Eindhoven. In the city, air quality is monitored and recorded at various locations. The datasets from this real-time fine dust monitoring are publicly available, allowing students and interested parties to experiment with them.

Smart but also limited

In the video below, Skyler describes the project where AI plays a crucial role in visualizing fine dust. AI is very clever, but also not so clever," says Skyler, and that's where we touch on the essence of what the technology does. It can do a lot, but not on its own. By leveraging extensive datasets, AI can assist in generating real-time visualizations of fine dust in the air and also making historical data visible. You can learn about how all of this came together in this episode of Eyes on AI.

The project was commissioned by "Lectoraat High Tech Embedded Software" and was conducted at our Fontys ICT InnovationLab on Strijp TQ. This is where practical work intersects with education and research. Open Learning is Fontys ICT's learning format, within which students are guided to create their own learning path.