Collaborated work on Battery Management System of Onda Solare Emilia 4

Emilia 4 is a

• four-seater solar car, using only solar energy
• L4.6m x W1.8m x H1.2m
• 5.4m2 of highly efficient solar
• panel able to power the 4 kw motors
• Vehicle weights 230 kg (without batteries) and it can load 360 kg (4 people and 2 luggage)
• 55 km/hr without battery
• 700 km with one charge and no sun (Tesla model S 600 km)

• The Winner
• The best mechanics and use of composites
• The best battery project

We have carried out the research on smart city related intelligent sensing techniques such as sensor networks, internet of things, and artificial intelligent etc.

Cultural Heritage Conservation for Indoor Environment

The library of University of Coimbra in Portugal -- one of the ten most beautiful libraries in the world. More than 20,000 books preserved since the 16th century and was built 800 years ago. The rare collections kept in the library are recently facing enormous pressure of endangerment by the incremental number of visitors to the library.

Our team uses the advanced intelligent sensing technologies to build a custom-made system for the library as a way to protect the precious collections. The system is also used by the Coimbra Science Museum and many other places.

Features of the Project:

• Experts on cultural heritage conservation
• Customized system design
• Corpus of professional systems
• Solution to the issues of ancient library conservation
• Three patents with couples of international scholar articles
• Internationally recognized

AlmaBike—Canarin II

AlmaBike-CanarinII aims to develop an outdoor environmental monitoring system with intelligent sensing techniques. Shared bicycles have been equipped with smart sensing devices that will track movements and air pollution emissions. Taking advantage of the city's digital communication infrastructure, the collected data can be transferred in real-time to the server, making it accessible to citizens and administration.

The system can be used on 1) Smart city planning and managing; 2) Placing bicycle points in strategic positions and making cycling routes suggestion; 3) Setting roadblocks and placing racks.

Test platform has been conducted in the university of Bologna.

Partners:

• Macao Polytechnic Unversity (MPU)
• Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
• University of Bologna (UB)
• Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)

Cloud-based intelligent portable personal real-time environmental monitoring system -- Canarin

Canarin won the 2nd place in International ICT Innovative Services Awards 2016 -- IC1. Canarin has the ability to capture data on a number of pollutants and environmental factors (i.e. temperature, pressure, etc.) and is highly scalable. It can also perform data localization and geo-tagging. Moreover, the operating time of Canarin can last multiple days. Nevertheless, the small size and weight of Canarin makes it more mobilized, yet the data accuracy of Canarin remains at high level.

• International Patents


• Awards
  • Apicta Award;
  • InnoServe Awards;
  • China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Competition;
• EI indexed conference paper

Vehicular Urban Pollution Monitoring

Vehicles will be the next generation of ubiquitous pollution control system and will eventually take over the large facilities used today. We have designed and developed a new sensing architecture based on many inexpensive air quality sensors mounted on public service vehicles. The built sensor device can measure several environmental characteristics such as CO2 concentration, temperature and other pollutants.

As the vehicles move around the city they will collect the environmental data, store and transferred the data to the server for further analyzing. The server can perform data storage, data analysis and data visualization. The data can be geo-tagged on a geographical information system in order to track the path of pollutants and track down the major sources of pollution.

The figure on the right shows the CO2 levels in the main streets of Macao, the red color means there is high level of CO2 on the road, green color means low level of CO2.

Location Based Services

Vehicles instrumented with GPS and communication devices will enable a new set of location based services including on-the-go digital billboards, opportunistic advertisement, government-run emergency information. Proximity based services enable cars to gather and deliver to potential customers’ smartphone the latest offers by local businesses. In the event of a typhoon, when the 3G infrastructure is down, a city-wide mesh network and WiFi enabled emergency vehicles could perform tracking and prioritize the rescue operations.