b'Partner News Winter 2020 37CorporateSiemens Mobility installs air quality sensors for ADEPT SMART Places programmeSiemens Mobility Limited has successfullyGiles Perkins, Programme Director said: installed the first ZephyrS air qualityThe use of small sensors is an exciting sensors for the Association of Directorsdevelopment and helps highway operators of Environment, Economy, Planning andunderstand air quality impacts in a Transports (ADEPT) SMART Places Live Labsmuch more local way than ever before. programme. Understanding traffic impacts on air quality helps achieve improved quality of life in local The Live Labs will see smart communicationcommunities and this technology will help technology being integrated with establishedthe acceleration of this technology.infrastructure to provide a multi-modal view of real-time traffic movements across theThe first group of six ZephyrS sensors Thames Valley. This will include air qualityhave been installed by Siemens Mobility data from the new EarthSense ZephyrSin Thatcham, Reading and Wokingham. To sensors, with these high specification,determine the best locations for the next compact air quality sensors measuring agroup, Siemens Mobility and EarthSense are range of pollutants, as well as temperatureparticipating in further project workshops, and humidity in real-time. with EarthSense supporting this work with modelling from its MappAir high resolution Data from the sensors will be fed backair quality mapping application.to the EarthSense MyAir data web app and Siemens Mobilitys Stratos trafficADEPT represents local authority county, management applications, enabling publicunitary and metropolitan Directors. health exposure models to be produced andThe ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs informing transportation, environmental andprogramme is a two-year 22.9m planning projects and strategies. project funded by the Department for Transport and supported by project Wilke Reints, Managing Director of Siemenspartners SNC-Lavalins Atkins business, Mobilitys Intelligent Traffic Systems businessEY, Kier, O2, Ringway and WSP. Local in the UK, said: The Live Labs phase is aauthorities are working on eight projects really exciting part of the ADEPT Programme,to introduce digital innovation across smart providing local highways authorities and theirmobility, transport, highways maintenance, partners with the opportunity to innovate,data, energy and communications. Live test and introduce new applications forLabs is part of ADEPTs SMART Places emerging smart technologies. programme to support the use of digital technology in place-based Poor air quality in towns and cities isservices.an ever-increasing problem, with road transport contributing significantly to urbanAir quality sensor measures pollution. By fully integrating our ZephyrSpollutants, temperature and humidity air quality sensor with other traffic data,in real-timeauthorities are able to make meaningful andEnables dynamic traffic management timely interventions through our Stratosinterventions to be implementedtraffic management system, implementingOffered as a service, sensor integrates strategies based on reliable pollution datawith traffic signals and traffic and prevailing air quality levels. management systems'