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Experts in Telematics Engineering develop within the European project CAMoN a team measuring urban pollutant gases

The data, processed using 'machine learning' techniques, will allow the application of specific measures, such as traffic restrictions in affected areas

The research group in Telematics Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) is developing a device to capture and measure pollutant gases, designed to be integrated into vehicles, which would allow geolocating episodes of pollution and apply specific solutions in road traffic.

This device is the main development of the European sub-project CAMoN (Co-Creative Air Monitoring Network), which also includes the University Center of Defense of Marín and the Colombian University of Santiago de Cali, and is financed with funds from the European call H2020 within the OrganiCity project.

The City of Cartagena has shown its interest in this project, with the possibility of incorporating the device into its fleet of urban vehicles, of which researchers have already created several prototypes, and in Colombia the experiment will also be replicated.

"Cartagena is the case study of a medium-sized city surrounded by an important industrial center, and Cali of a large city, with almost two and a half million inhabitants," explains Antonio Javier García, project manager.

The telematic engineers trained in the UPCT Pablo Marco Jornet and Pedro Antonio Moreno Riquelme have been hired by the group, directed by Joan García Haro, to develop the system for six months, which captures and measures gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone and nitrogen dioxide and transmits the readings through fixed devices (gateways) installed in the city to web servers, where the information is processed by means of 'machine learning' techniques.

"The objective is to locate the episodes of pollution, so that specific solutions can be applied, not restricting traffic throughout the city, but only in the affected areas, so that it has the least possible impact on the mobility of citizens" , explain the researchers of the School of Telecommunications of the Polytechnic.

The experts in Telematics of the UPCT also collaborate with the City of Cartagena in other research projects funded by the DGT, using new technologies and image processing to reorder road traffic.

Source: UPCT