Urban Informatics Programme
Mission Statement
To realize visions for sustainable future cities through interdisciplinary research based on state-of-the-art software and knowledge information technology, and urban and social informatics and big data analytics.
Objectives
- To construct an Urban & Social Information Repository (USIR) that would collect, monitor, process, manipulate, analyze, and visualize big data for urban and social informatics for future city research based on and including the following:
- Data sources and Tools: GISs, Google Map, environmental and pollution databases, remote sensing, ground-based and mobile sensor networks, social network services, weather, social databases, etc.
- Data types: spatial, temporal, rich media, etc.
- To empower other centres within the institute by providing consultancy, database, information and knowledge services
- To oversee the information and knowledge management of all the five centres as data architect for the institute
Main Projects
- Strategies for Low-carbon Transport Systems (completed)
- Air-Pollution Decision Support System (APDSS)
- Collecting and integrating multi-source, multi-scale air pollution related data in the APDSS
- Developing a web interface for visualization, query and data mining of APDSS
- Developing a mobile application for volunteer air pollution monitoring
- Developing an adaptive modularized mobile sensors node for air pollution monitoring
- Developing algorithms for path planning of a squadron of UAVs
- Crisis Management
For example:- Develop a smart building which can activate an automatic evacuation plan in case of accidence through state-of-the-art location-based devices.
- City evacuation planning, execution and monitoring in case of earth quake, flooding or hazardous accidence.
- Urban planning based on environmental and social problems.
For example:
Design of a smart city using novel modeling, prediction, and visualization technology, etc.
Work in Progress
Investigators
Centre Director: Prof. LEUNG Kwong-Sak
Members: Prof. Mantian Mandy HU, Prof. Irwin KING, Prof. KWOK Bit-Chee, Prof. Gabriel LAU, Prof. LEUNG Yee, Prof. Steve YIM, Prof. Man-Hon WONG
