Urban-scale Spatiotemporal Thermal Scanner by SENSEable City Lab
Pitch
Urban-scale spatiotemporal thermal maps using low-cost thermal cameras mounted on top of urban vehicles such as busses and trash tracks
Description
Make life easier/more difficult for Singapore?
Easier
Describe the change
The increasingly urbanized world will demand a substantial increase in total energy consumption in the next years. A significant part of the wasted energy in the areas like Singapore is via thermal exchange between buildings and their ambient environment. Since buildings in Singapore are heavily using the air-conditioning systems all year round, the efficiency of building envelopes and building façades is of great importance. The building façade is the skin between the building and its environment and obviously a major source of low-grade energy loss.
Our idea is to capture the spatiotemporal variation in environmental parameters such as thermal flux of the built environment (cool leaks in specific case of Singapore) as a new source of information for decision makers. To this end, we follow a centralized IoT regime to generate a near real-time map of sensed data. To this end, we use low-cost thermal cameras that can be mounted on top of urban vehicles such as busses and trash tracks.
How will this change impact Smart Nation Singapore in 2030?
The spatiotemporal datasets play a significant role in smart city domain by empowering advanced analytics solutions for decision makers and urban managers. Especially in the environmental-related use-cases, the spatial and temporal dimensions are of great importance for monitoring and controlling of our environment more effectively.
By combining the captured data overtime, we would be able to incorporate various statistical and machine learning techniques to improve the quality of data and create valuable knowledge for further evaluation by city managers and decision makers. The resulting maps can be used in various use cases such as examining the energy efficiency of buildings or monitoring city infrastructure (e.g. electricity transformers, wires, pipes, etc.).
By:
SENSEable City Lab