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Sensing and Analytics of Air Quality

Sensing and Analytics of Air Quality

MegaSense: Scalable real-time 5G air pollution sensing as a service for megacities

Sensing and Analytics of Air Quality, MegaSense research group

Planet-scale environmental monitoring

Crowdsourced and highly scalable real-time air quality monitoring in megacities supported by the 5G infrastructure, featuring enhanced precision by novel AI-based calibration methods and data analytics.

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From science to new business

Multidisciplinary approach to build up the 5G real-time air quality monitoring in Megacities.

About MegaSense

Mission We are witnessing exponential growth of urban areas and the emergence of mega-cities. Nine out of ten people around the world...

Research

The MegaSense Concept MegaSense utilizes 5G network and city reference monitoring stations for precise atmospheric real time readings and...

People and contacts

MegaSense and it's research background is multidisciplinary and we all work at the University of Helsinki. Below you will find contact...

Topics

High density of measurement stations and automatically calibrated sensors providing real-time measurement data.

5G transfer techniques for air quality

5G is expected to enable many new and unforeseen use cases, the enhanced capabilities of 5G are required for AR and VR to reach their full...

Air quality monitoring

We plan to utilize GPS and the emerging 5G infrastructure for positioning. We will consider the placement of the mini-sensors in order to...

Geovisualization of air quality data

The location of high definition pollution camera is provided by a geolocation service. We plan to utilize GPS and the emerging 5G...

News

23.2.2021

Science news

The invisible smallest particles matter for the air we breathe

Researchers of the University of Helsinki have resolved for the first time, how the ultrafine particles of atmosphere effect on the climate and...

19.11.2020

Science news

Venture with Air competition attracted submissions from four continents – winning team’s software optimises air quality and energy consumption in buildings

The competition, looking for solutions to cities' air pollution problems, drew entries from 12 different countries. Eight teams were selected...

11.11.2020

Science news

MegaSense helps avoid air pollution

A network of sensors that measure air quality is being built in Helsinki, which can be used as the basis for a range of health-promoting...

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