Report : Avanti R&D, Inc. and UEC to conduct demonstration experiments in Denmark for the “visualization” of environmental impacts caused by traffic
March 31, 2020
Avanti R&D, Inc., with headquarters in Los Angeles, USA, represented by its CEO, Go YUASA, and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), a national university in Japan, agreed to conduct joint research for visualizing the effects on the atmosphere by combining AI traffic cameras developed by Avanti R&D with atmospheric environment sensing technologies developed by UEC (Professor Kenji TANAKA and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Yo ISHIGAKI). Demonstration experiments of the technology will be conducted in Denmark.
- AI traffic camera
As of March 11, 2020, Avanti R&D, Inc., the Royal Danish Embassy, Japan and UEC signed a Joint Declaration on the commencement of the project.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor Ishigaki, a member of Professor Tanaka's Lab, has developed the world's first mobile environmental sensor connected to a smartphone and has put it into service. It is widely used for indoor and outdoor environmental measurements, not only in Japan but also in developing countries. Being low-cost, compact and low-power-consumption, the sensor can measure air pollution such as PM2.5, NO₂, and CO₂. It is also suitable for multi-point deployment as it has a proven track record in long-term and outdoor measurement scenarios.
The AI traffic camera developed by Avanti R&D can collect traffic information with embedded AI, processing parameters such as vehicle class, speed, and count in real-time and converting them into non-identifiable numerical data. The AI camera is equipped with the world's first Re-ID technology that assigns an anonymous ID to each moving object and then anonymously re-identifies those objects at different locations. This enables the measurement of travel time and travel routes between cameras. Since it does not transfer any images or videos, it complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and thus has been evaluated highly by European and Asian governments.
Avanti R&D will use vehicle information from its AI traffic cameras along with simultaneously measured values from the atmospheric environment sensors developed by UEC and create technologies to analyze the effects of passing vehicles and traffic conditions on the atmospheric environment in real-time via correlation of various parameters.
Demonstration experiments of the technology will be held in Denmark for 3 years starting in 2020. They will be conducted in collaboration with the DOLL Living Lab, the largest intelligent infrastructure project in Europe, located in City of Albertslund west of Copenhagen.