The structure of the project sees as a first necessity that of deepening and specifying the needs of the communities involved and, at the same time, carrying out an analysis of the geographical context of the various municipalities, a preparatory activity to be able to face any other phase of the project in an efficient and personalized way. the different communities.
Following this recognition, the partners involved in the WPs related to the design of monitoring and data management systems will be able to develop the solutions suitable to meet the needs of the community, and then proceed to a full-scale implementation, within the territories of the municipalities, and a test of the entire system. In this phase, the IIA of the CNR will be able to collaborate to identify indices that allow the dissemination of the mass of data collected in a synthetic format and that can be enjoyed by citizens in a satisfactory manner.
Citizens will therefore be involved throughout the project process to make them participate in the various steps undertaken and the activities carried out in the municipal areas, to raise awareness of the issues in question (air quality, both outdoor and indoor, and water) and, where possible, to make it participate in monitoring activities.
Going into detail, with regard to the air component, it is planned to develop smart sensor units to be placed in residential areas to measure the concentrations of pollutants connected, for example: to combustion processes for powering endothermic vehicles, wood fuels, private heating systems distributed and not. These control units will monitor, both outdoors and indoors, the concentrations of fine dust, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds (VOC). Furthermore, given the presence of vast wooded areas in the territories, particular attention will be paid to monitoring ozone and the parameters related to its formation, such as UV and solar radiation, as high levels of this climate-altering agent can cause damage to vegetation.
Another important output of the project will be the creation of an IT platform where the data will be processed through indices that will show the trend over time, as well as the current state of environmental quality. The platform will be equipped with an alert system that will be able to send to the competent subjects the main values ​​capable of predicting any exceeding of the risk thresholds or legal limits for the various pollutants. An innovative data processing software based on AI (artificial intelligence) will use the data obtained from all the sensors of the environmental monitoring to provide forecasts on possible pollution peaks with sufficient advance to counter and avoid them.