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Crowdsourced Data Helps Cities Fight Litter

To combat its litter problem, the city of Memphis is turning to data. Over four evaluation sessions this year, 10 researchers will monitor whether litter-prevention methods are working as part of the City Fingerprint Project, a three-city initiative to study litter-related pain points and use data to drive solutions.

For the project, citizen science researchers take a photo of litter items with the company’s Researcher app, which geocodes. Later in the process, the images are assigned a tag to identify them. As data is collected by volunteers, cities can see what kind of litter is showing up where.

Cities participating have the additional ability to overlay different datasets – of population density or commercial corridors, for example – to learn where the litter could be coming from so that we can make better intervention and messaging strategies.

The work will expand on a platform that applies machine learning to photos of litter to develop a baseline of litter composition, such as material, object and brand. The project will look at litter pile up in various sections of the city and compare what it looks like in, say, school zones vs. transportation hubs to give cities a better sense of what litter is most problematic and where.

Memphis has provided several datasets to Litterati on traffic, transit stops and other geospatial data to overlay on their data collection. It is really about getting a better understanding of where our pain points are, what the materials are in those pain points, and what kind of connections there could be to these other sets of data that we are about to be able to evaluate with this platform to help drive better decision-making.

Data on litter composition is crucial, a campaign aimed at creating a zero net waste circular economy. That informs about potential source-reduction campaigns that could potentially run within the city or neighbourhood. There are a lot of different strategies and intervention methods to test out by having this data now.

The primary benefit is to learn how to solve a city’s litter problem. What’s more, cities could use the national data for inspiration. It’s always useful to understand what the city is facing and how that compares to other cities. That can motivate more people to get involved. For instance, Memphis has used the app since 2020 to encourage residents to pick up trash through several challenges, such as the Earth Day 30 Days Straight.

As reported by OpenGov Asia, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is developing a connected vehicle data exchange platform (DEP) to help analyse real-time road conditions and communicate travel information to drivers. FDOT tapped Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to develop a cloud-based vehicle-to-everything (V2X) DEP as part of the department’s Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) Initiative. The US$ 8 million project is expected to take four years.

The V2X DEP is intended to encompass the FDOT’s operational, development and planned CAV project corridors and networks. The system plans to ingest data from CAV devices and intelligent transportation systems, to assist with decision-making by FDOT and stakeholders in the auto industry, research, traffic engineering and other transportation areas.

Data has to travel along with a backhaul to a Florida DOT traffic management centre, and then from there, it’s got to travel over the public internet to reach this cloud-hosted data-processing platform. At that point, the data is going to be consolidated, duplication is going to be removed and personally, identifiable information is going to be stripped out to ensure anonymity for the travelling public.

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Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

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CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

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Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

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SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

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HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

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IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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