JCDecaux is partnering with Microsoft Research & Array of Things Team to launch an air sensor pilot using its Chicago street ...
19 Luglio 2021 - 5:40PM
JCDecaux is partnering with Microsoft Research & Array of
Things Team to launch an air sensor pilot using its Chicago street
furniture program
JCDecaux is partnering with
Microsoft Research &
Array of Things Team to launch
an air sensor pilot using
its Chicago street
furniture program
Paris, July
19th, 2021 –
JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor
advertising company worldwide, announced that it has partnered with
Microsoft Research’s Urban Innovation Group and the Array of Things
team to launch an air quality sensor pilot on 100 bus shelters in
Chicago, in order to monitor precisely air quality across the city
and facilitate adapted environmental measures.
The World Health Organization estimates that 91%
of the world’s population live in places where air quality exceeds
guideline limits. Air pollution is a major concern for cities,
given its consequences for human health and the environment.
However, it is critical for urban areas to assess air quality on a
real-time basis to be able to formulate policies to address these
challenges. By using environmental sensors, cities can radically
increase the geographic granularity of environmental sensing in
support of creating solutions to improve everyday air quality in
the urban environment for a variety of public health scenarios.
As a partner to 3,670 cities around the world,
JCDecaux is innovating continuously not only to limit the
environmental impact of its activities but also to develop
solutions for sustainable cities. For its pilot program in Chicago,
JCDecaux installed 100 air quality sensors on its bus shelters
specially designed for the City by the architect Robert A.M. Stern,
across the wards of Chicago, to measure and record air quality,
temperature, and humidity across the city and throughout various
weather conditions and seasonality.
With these environmental sensors, Chicago, a
global smart city, will be able to collect precise data and fine
tune with the objective of improving air quality and the quality of
life of its inhabitants. The data will be accessible to the public
on smartphones by scanning a QR code on each bus shelter referring
to a website, designed by Microsoft Research, to provide the public
with easily understood information from the air sensor data
collected (at each location as well as in comparison to other
locations: https://urban.microsoft.com/air/city/chicago).This
information will also be fed into the Chicago Open Data portal:
https://data.cityofchicago.org
JCDecaux has long pursued a policy of
responsible innovation and has already developed programs providing
air quality measurement in other countries, including France (Nice)
and Japan (Tokyo). The Group has also recently launched a range of
new-generation bus shelters, including Filtreo®, with its roof made
of a carpet of moss that captures and absorbs pollutants providing
cleaner air to passengers, and a natural cooling bus shelter,
offering a solution to the urban heat islands.
Scott Counts, Senior
Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, Urban Innovation
Group, said: “We’re excited to partner with JCDecaux to
enable neighborhood scale air quality monitoring in Chicago.
Together, our goal is to help inform and engage residents and the
city so that they can take targeted steps to mitigate issues with
poor air quality, especially in areas most in need. Leveraging the
bus shelter network allows us to place air quality monitors at
representative locations around the city and with a high density of
coverage.”
Charlie Catlett, Senior Research
Scientist at the University of Illinois Discovery Partners
Institute and leader of the Array of Things team
(comprising scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, the
University of Chicago, and Northwestern University), said: “This
project builds on partnerships we have been building for many years
through scientific projects like the Array of Things, with a
constantly expanding community of scientists who are eager to
analyze the data.”
Jean-François
Decaux, Chairman of the
Executive Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer of
JCDecaux, said: “Cities are facing major challenges in
terms of air quality and health. The unique density and coverage of
street furniture in urban centres make them an ideal medium to plug
environmental services, such as air quality sensors. We are proud
to partner with Microsoft Research Urban Innovation Group to
contribute to real-time monitoring of air quality in Chicago and to
furnish precise geo-localized data, useful to the city and to the
dwellers’ well-being. Improving urban living has always driven the
efforts of JCDecaux to develop innovative and ecological services.
Through this new partnership, and as a trusted media, JCDecaux
demonstrates the usefulness and efficiency of its media for local
areas and their populations and continues to be an integral part of
an approach to raising awareness in its ecosystem to build a more
sustainable world.”
Key Figures for JCDecaux
- 2020 revenue: €2,312m
- Present in 3,670 cities with more
than 10,000 inhabitants
- A daily audience of more than
840 million people in more than 80 countries
- 10,230 employees
- Leader in self-service bike rental
scheme: pioneer in eco-friendly mobility
- 1st Out-of-Home Media company to
join the RE100 (committed to 100% renewable energy)
- JCDecaux is listed on the Eurolist
of Euronext Paris and is part of the Euronext 100 and Euronext
Family Business indexes
- JCDecaux is recognised for its
extra-financial performance in the FTSE4Good (4.6/5) and CDP (A
Leadership) rankings, and has obtained the MSCI AAA score for the
4th year in a row
- 964,760 advertising panels
worldwide
- N°1 worldwide in street furniture
(489,500 advertising panels)
- N°1 worldwide in transport
advertising with 156 airports and 249 contracts in metros, buses,
trains and tramways (329,790 advertising panels)
- N°1 in Europe for billboards
(129,970 advertising panels)
- N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Europe (615,530 advertising panels)
- N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Asia-Pacific (216,590 advertising panels)
- N°1 in outdoor advertising in Latin
America (66,120 advertising panels)
- N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Africa (22,500 advertising panels)
- N°1 in outdoor advertising in the
Middle East (15,350 advertising panels)
For more information about JCDecaux, please
visit jcdecaux.com. Join us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook,
Instagram and YouTube.
Communications
Department: Albert Asséraf+33 (0)
1 30 79 35 68 – albert.asseraf@jcdecaux.com
Investor
Relations: Rémi Grisard+33 (0) 1
30 79 79 93 – remi.grisard@jcdecaux.com
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