Improving Quality Of Life And Environmental Equity In Richmond With Mobile Air Quality Sensors Combined With Census Data

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1 Improving Quality Of Life And Environmental Equity In Richmond With Mobile Air Quality Sensors Combined With Census Data Liz Derr, Co-Founder and CEO Yuichiro Kuzuryu, Hardware Architect, New Venture Business Development

2 The Problem: Richmond Is Home To Industries That Some8mes Pollute August 25, 2012 Chevron s Richmond Refinery the company s second largest refinery spewed toxic smoke over Richmond and San Pablo sending more than 14,000 people in the East Bay to medical facilities with smokerelated complaints. 2

3 Richmond Has An Air Monitoring Website 3 Areas: Atchison Village North Richmond Point Richmond 2 Locations Per Area: Refinery Fence Line and Community Chevron might not be the only problem, or even the biggest problem, but all we re measuring is the air near the refinery, so how would we know? 3

4 Our Proposed Project 1. Attach mobile air quality sensors to city vehicles to get a broad, real-time view of air quality throughout the city 2. Publish the real time air quality data for citizens to refer to 3. Use predictive analytics that combine air quality data with census data for policy and planning insights 4

5 What We Did Simularity Created User Interface Correlation and Similarity Calculations Simularity Intelligent Agent REST API Simularity Knowledge Base 5

6 VasP Sensor Unit Mock-up of final product air pollution sensors:! Ozone, NOx, SO2, CO, CO2, PM2.5, etc.! GPS! other sensors:! temperature, humidity, barometric pressure,! UV, ambient light, accelerometer, radiation, etc.!! mobile connectivity! dimension! 4x3x1.5! (estimation)! optional:! driving information! mobile battery or connection to vehicle s electrical system!

7 How To Attach The VasP Neodymium Magnet or Permanent Attachment (theft prevention)!

8 Step 1: Connect The VasP To A Car And Collect Readings Maiden Voyage! Prototype VasP 8

9 Step 2: Ingest VasP Readings Into UI and Correlation Engine 9

10 Step 3: Ingest Census Data Into UI and Correlation Engine 10

11 Step 4: Combine Census Data With VasP Readings VasP Data: Nitrogen Dioxide Census Data: Median Household Income Studies on human populations indicate that long-term exposure to NO2 levels currently observed in Europe may decrease lung function and increase the risk of respiratory symptoms such as acute bronchitis and cough and phlegm, particularly in children. High Median Income Areas Had Worse NO2 Readings! 11

12 Step 5: Find Correlations Between Census Data And VasP Readings Correlation Engine Query: Which Areas Are Correlated With Medium To High ( ) Levels Of Nitrogen Dioxide? 12

13 Step 5: Find Correlations Between Census Data And VasP Readings VasP Data Details For Tract : Tract is Negatively Correlated With Med-High NO 2 Readings in tract that match the med-high criteria ( ): 39 of 367 readings 13

14 Step 5: Find Correlations Between Census Data And VasP Readings VasP Data: Nitrogen Dioxide Details And Correlations For Census Tract Log Likelihood Correlations Between Medium to High NO 2 Readings and All Census Subgroups By Tract 14

15 Product Readiness Simularity Software Simularity s Knowledge Base And Intelligent Agent Software Is Fully Functional And Deployed At Several Customer Sites The User Interface Demonstrated Is Fully Functional VasP Unit Prototyping stage now, launch next year 15

16 VasP Launch Schedule Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul additional research! company build! funding! beta version development! pilot launch (beta version)! official launch!

17 Competition Categories Of Our Project Healthy living: Real-time hyper-local air quality measurements available to the public help citizens with Asthma or other respiratory issues plan Energy efficiency: measuring hyper-local CO 2 emissions can indicate areas for reducing emissions Urban Sustainability: hyper-local air quality metrics, available online in real time give a broader picture of the air quality per neighborhood vs. static measuring stations Great Outdoors: Provides a citizen facing information service that provides historical and real-time information about environmental air quality Enhances existing datasets (census data) through additional environmental sensors (gathered from VasP) Enhances the value of new datasets in terms of community-and/or policy impact (correlations of census information with hyper-local air quality data) Environmental justice/equity considerations: Which neighborhoods are suffering the most? Which locations are polluting the most? 17

18 Project Affordability Simularity s knowledge base and intelligent agent software is licensed by usage and can be installed on premise or hosted. The user interface can be customized by any web developers. The VasP unit pricing is projected to be in the range of $50 to $

19 Features For Future Phases Calibrate the sensor readings and establish appropriate safety levels Allow citizens to sign up for hyper-local text alerts when dangerous air quality situations exist in their neighborhood Add additional sensors, measure noise levels Create VasPs that can be purchased by citizen scientists and attached to their own cars or homes and allow citizens to view their own VasP data 19

20 THANK YOU 1160 Brickyard Cove Road, Suite 200 Point Richmond, CA United States liz@simularity.com