Air Quality Monitoring at Imphal Smart City, India
Empowering city authorities for smart air quality monitoring
Imphal, India
Jul 2020
Smart city monitoring
Nice Infotech
Polludrone
Visualization & Analytics
Overview
Overview
Imphal, a tiny valley in Manipur, is known for its historic relics. To develop as a smart city while maintaining the ancient beauty of the city, the authorities needed to establish an advanced infrastructure in place, including intelligent traffic management and weather prediction. Oizom installed a network of Polludrone to monitor the environment and improve the traffic management system. A robust air quality monitoring enabled the Imphal Smart city authorities to understand the spatial variation in the pollution.
Imphal, a tiny valley in Manipur, is known for its historic relics. To develop as a smart city while maintaining the ancient beauty of the city, the authorities needed to establish an advanced infrastructure in place, including intelligent traffic management and weather prediction. Oizom installed a network of Polludrone to monitor the environment and improve the traffic management system. A robust air quality monitoring enabled the Imphal Smart city authorities to understand the spatial variation in the pollution.
Problem
Imphal is one of the ancient Indian subcontinents, known for its old well-planned temples and historical palace. The monuments and the lush green-blue surroundings is a destination to the discerning tourists. Imphal being a hilly area, at a height of 786 m, is highly prone to floods and eqrthquakes. In fact, 35% of the city is prone to floods and the entire city is Seismic Zone 5. Due to the hilly terrains, the traffic management is also a problem, so much so that it may affect the relics of the city.
To cope up with all these problems, the city needs a holistic and robust system. Keeping this in mind, Imphal’s smart city mission features include tourism and heritage precincts, smart mobility, smart governance, smart infrastructure, health & medicine, and revitalization of business districts. Air quality monitoring being one of key elements of the infrastructure, it was required for empowering city authorities with real-time data.
Offered Solution
To provide a smart infrastructure to the city, Oizom offered its smart environmental solution to Imphal. Oizom Polludrone, with enviromental sensors, is a one-stop solution to city’s develpomental problems.
Polludrone measures all the major pollutants in the ambient air. This will help the city in understanding the pollution scenario and its major sources. Polludrone is installed on roadsides to monitor the vehicular emissions. Not only this, but the smart device is also capable of monitoring weather parameters like wind, flood, temperature, pressure, etc. through its advanced monitoring methods. All these data is transferred in real-time to Oizom’s data analytics platform where it is then interpreted and shared with the city authorities.
Impact
Capturing different environmental data and its assessment in Oizom Terminal in real-time helps the city in taking actions beforehand. The city can implement an intelligent traffic management system now, owing to the vehicular emission data. Additionally, air quality monitoring at Imphal has prepared for policy-level changes like the introduction of CNG enabled vehicles. Predicting oncoming natural hazards beforehand will help the city in preparedness to face the situations and transfer people to safe places and save lives and infrastructure.
