Smart Cities

One of the biggest question today for the Urban Planners and City Administrations are how to manage the cities in wake of growing urbanization. It is estimated that by 2030 70% of the world population would be living in urban centers. Imagine the burden on urban resources and utilities with increased population when they are hardly being able to cope with the existing requirements of electricity, water, transportation, security and clean air.

One of the biggest question today for the Urban Planners and City Administrations are how to managethe cities in wake of growing urbanization. It is estimated that by 2030 70% of the world populationwould be living in urban centers. Imagine the burden on urban resources and utilities with increasedpopulation when they are hardly being able to cope with the existing requirements of electricity, water,transportation, security and clean air.

Energy Management System for Public Transport – A case of Karachi’s Bus Rapid Transit

Linked Things recently installed energy management system at every bus station of the Karachi’s BusRapid Transit System (BRT). The BRT covers 25km of important route that connects the north most partof the city with the port in the south. Energy management system is to monitor the consumption in realtime, prepare trend analysis, generate alerts and provide comparison from one station to another. Thisis an important tool to identify the leakages and wastages of energy utilization at a public sector service.It is estimated that upto 25% of the electricity can be saved by using EMS.

The data is being received live from all 23 functional stations of the BRT and collected at the OCC set upto monitor the operations.

Air Quality Monitoring in Metropolitan Areas – A case of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar

Linked Things decided to venture into the air quality monitoring as the major cities are struggling tomaintain health levels of air quality. The units deployed by Linked Things are capable of monitoringPM2.5, CO, SO2, NO2 and O3 pollutants along with temperature, pressure and humidity levels. The datais recorded at every second so that environmentalists and researchers can conduct studies on thecauses of air quality based on spatial and temporal data and determine local nuances of the causes ofpollution. The units installed are simple to install and self sufficient from power perspective as they runon solar energy.

The data is being received from over 50 units installed in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar inrealtime, stored on a cloud and shared with the public in real time. We have developed historical trendsand predictions there as well.