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Air pollution is a silent killer considered one of the world’s biggest health and environmental dangers. Causing 6.7 million premature deaths worldwide. Polluted air drains economic growth and youth from developing and low income communities. Southeast Asia is a global center of air pollution, with 37 of the 40 most polluted cities.
In Africa, only 6% of children live near reliable stations that monitor the air quality they breathe. Technology may help us fight the haze away and breathe a sigh of relief one day!
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More than 185 tech teams from 27 countries and 5 continents, with the help of over 50 technical mentors, used the latest cloud, ML, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to build 33 solutions. The 3 winning solutions bridge the data, forecasting, monitoring, and information gaps with the ultimate goal to clean up the air.
Polish Smog Alert is an organization that conducts a campaign “See what you breathe. Change it”. Seven two-meter-high models of human lungs travel to 63 locations.
The lungs “breathe,” absorbing air pollutants that settle on the white matter covering the installations. The challenge for the tech team was to transfer the mobile lung experience to the digital space for the worldwide audience.
by: Łukasz Pluszczewski, Jan Zoń, Agnieszka Grabałowska, Piotr Waleń
The Brainhub team has prepared and implemented a website and a mobile application written in React.js with a very suggestive image of breathing lungs. Depending on the location we choose, and actual real-time data from OpenWeather API, the image will show us the damage to the lungs appropriate to the air quality. In future development, the website will be able to display historical data. On top of this, the team invented a mobile game using the Kaboom game engine in which the user can become a brave lung that fights air pollution. The level of difficulty depends on the level of pollution. The application is easy to deploy on AWS or any other container-enabled environment.
The Thailand Clean Air Network is actively working to bring about meaningful change in air quality legislation. One significant hurdle the organization faces is the lack of appeal in legal language, which often alienates a broader audience, especially the youth.
by: Bartosz Kozłowski, Adam Czarkowski, Norbert Szorc, Rafał Kurzyna Sebastian Burzynski, Adrian Michalski
The BlueRider.Software team prepared the AirVocacy, a digital platform that integrates live sensor data from over 1800 stations in more than 370 cities, providing real-time updates on air quality. Complementing this is a user-friendly chatbot powered by GPT 3.5 with an option to transition to GPT 4.0, which answers queries about air pollution and legislative measures. An AI meme generation tool utilizing DALL-E 3 to engage a younger audience creates shareable memes, simplifying complex legal and environmental concepts. Additionally, advanced legal language processing, employing Langchain & Qdrant, enhances the accessibility of legislative documents, ensuring precise answers in any language.
Afri-SET is working on a big project in West Africa to ensure affordable air quality sensors are used in places that usually get little attention. They want to create a smart database that can handle data from all kinds of sensors, no matter who makes them.
Their goal is to make it easy for anyone with a sensor to join in and use their platform.
by: Venkat Viswanathan, Gabriel Verreault, Qiong (Jo) Zhang, Andrew Wallace, Satish Kathiriya
The solution crafted by The Camaraderie, named “Bedrock Mining the Air for Data Nuggets,” introduces a novel approach to data processing. It utilizes a Language Model (LLM) prompt to generate Python codes automatically capable of handling raw data in various formats. This innovation significantly streamlines data engineering efforts, reducing the timeline from months to days. The system automatically generates code for each data format and seamlessly integrates with Amazon Bedrock, accessing cutting-edge LLMs via API. It incorporates human involvement to oversee data ingestion and LLM outputs for additional security measures. The solution also leverages AWS safety, security, and responsible AI features. Notably, it’s easy to scale by using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon S3 as a data lake platform, offering support for various analytics services and facilitating easy extension to a production-ready system.
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May 2024
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