TwinAIR– Digital Twins Enabled Indoor Air Quality Management for Healthy Living
PROGRAMME: EU HorizonEurope
ABSTRACT:
TwinAIR aims to improve urban life by tackling the challenge of indoor air quality (IAQ) improvement by understating its complex interrelationship with external factors. This is achieved by introducing a novel set of tools for: identifying sources and tracing a variety of pollutants and pathogens, enhancing understanding of their effects and assessing their impact on health, controlling building management systems and services in ways that mitigate part of the impacts and helping citizens to develop better insights into pollution impacts, along with encouraging healthier more sustainable choices. TwinAIR embraces bleeding edge innovation in urban sensing (chemical and environmental sensors), data analytics and visualization (digital maps and real-time video analysis), smart buildings (digital twins and virtual sensors) and behavioural insights (citizen participation, gamification) to deliver a nascent solution. It is implemented across six diverse pilot sites in Europe (ES, IE, UK, SE, DE, EL) with demonstrations covering residential dwellings, public administration buildings, hospitals and schools, along with selected types of vehicles (buses, vans).TwinAIR’s toolsets empowers students and their parents, commuters, workers and residents to make more healthaware personal decisions about their everyday mobility options and use of indoor spaces, through access to insightful analytics and engaging visualizations of their data, as well as by their participation in educational events and activities. At the same time, it provides rich evidence to transport planners, facility managers and policymakers about factors influencing IAQ and effective interventions for mitigating its effects on health and wellbeing. By democratizing cutting edge innovation in sensors, digital twinning and visual analytics, TwinAIR enables better decision-making about future mobility policies, built environment management and incentivisation of citizens. Project TwinAIR is part of the European cluster on indoor air quality and health.
COORDINATOR: PANEPISTIMIO PATRON (UoP) – GR
PARTNERS:
- PANEPISTIMIO PATRON (UoP) – GR
- UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA (UNL) – PT
- LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET (LIU) – SE
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN- (NUID UCD) – IE
- TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE OSTWESTFALEN-LIPPE (TH OWL) – DE
- INSTITUT D’ARQUITECTURA AVANCADA DE CATALUNYA (IAAC) – ES
- FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA – (ISGLOBAL)- ES
- IES R&D (IES)-IE
- INSTITUT DE INVESTIGACIO EN CIENCIES DE LA SALUT GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL (IGTP) – ES
- ANAPTYXIAKI ETAIREIA DIMOU TRIKKAION ANAPTYXIAKI ANONYMI ETAIREIA OTA (E TRIKALA AE) – EL
- GENIKO NOSOKOMEIO ELEFSINAS THRIASIO (TGH)- EL
- AKADEMISKA HUS AKTIEBOLAG (AH) – SE
- ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA (ETRA) – ES
- ZONAIR3D SL (Z3D) – ES
- ARTHUR’S LEGAL BV (AL) – NL
- AVANZA SPAIN SL (AVANZA) – ES
- CENTRUM INDUSTRIAL IT E V (CIIT) – DE
- STRATAGEM ENERGY LTD (STRATA) -CY
- ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE NORMALIZACION (UNE) – ES
- INNOVATION IN RESEARCH & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS (IRES) – BE
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (UoB) – UK
- UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (UoB-H) – UK
- THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (UCAM) -UK
KEY WORDS: Indoor air quality, pollutants, pathogens, public and environmental health, digital twins, healthy living, air quality management.
