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| China Municipality Government and IBM Join Hands to Combat Pollution |
The air quality in Beijing is probably the worst pollution scenario, after a series of pollution scares hit the capital. China's Central Government, after promising to reverse the damages to the environment, is now looking up to advanced weather forecasting and cloud computing technologies to help tackle the problems of particulate matter and persistent smog.
The Beijing Government already collects air quality data. The city uses an alerting system based on data from 35 stations that monitor pollution levels in their respective regions. It deploys emergency measures when PM2.5 concentration levels rise too high, such as shutting down schools and factories, or limiting the number of cars on road.
Even then, the problem is far from being solved, as the lack of a finer grain of data does not permit the city's pollution management to be of any use in the long term. The residents have not stopped complaining and shutting down schools and industries have resulted in unwarranted disruptions for businesses as well as individuals. Wang Tao, a climate and energy scholar at the Carnegie - Tsinghua Center for Global Policy says, "If you don't know exactly what is the source, how it's interacting in the air and how it's dispersing across the city it is more difficult to tackle it. What they really need is advanced technology and science to help them understand what measures must be taken."
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| Beijing and its Pollution Woes |
The Beijing Municipal Government has collaborated with IBM China for the project dubbed as "Green Horizon", a 10 year initiative to support China in transforming its national energy systems and protecting the health of citizens. The project is centered around air quality management, renewable energy forecasting and energy optimization for industry. IBM China's Research - led laboratories, along with the company's network of 12 global research labs are dedicated to use Big Data analytics to help them give deeper insights into the global pollution woes and come up with reliable long - term solutions, and is backed by governments (including China's Municipality Government), private enterprises, industries and academia.
Though IBM had suffered a slump in sales in China, mainly in the wake of revelations that the United States has been spying on foreign governments, the Municipality Government was drawn to the company's forecasting expertise and the collection of Big Data on real time emissions to help predict smog build - ups. IBM will help in monitoring real - time streaming of particulate matter and combine all the Big Data gathered with sensors and information gleaned from satellites. The Big Data so obtained will be run through supercomputers, that is, its artificial intelligence computing system for analysing and processing relevant information and to create visual pollution maps for highlighting the trends and changes in air quality, as well as identifying the source and dispersal patterns on pollutants across Beijing, accurate to at least three days in advance.
IBM will be using Big Data analytics and its weather modelling not only for predicting pollution levels in the city, but also for forecasting the availability of renewable sources of energy like wind energy, solar energy etc. , as well as providing useful insights for industries to lower their energy consumption levels.
IBM is a renowned company for advanced technologies which will help improve the accuracy and reliability of the pollution management of Beijing, while generating new commercial opportunities in pollution control and renewable energies.
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