MMEA (Measurement Monitoring and Environmental Efficiency Assessment) program factsheet

1. Measurement, Monitoring and
Environmental Efficiency Assessment
-Innovations throuh new thinking
MMEA research areas
”The impact of the program is expected to
manifest as a new business development
platform and increased competitiveness in
the global market.”
Platforms
• Interoperable measurement systems
• Management systems for environmental
efficiency
Sensor & monitoring technologies
• Remote sensing
• Particles & emissions
Pilots & demonstrations
• MMEA Testbed
• Business pilots
• SME
MMEA Factsheet July 2015
Drivers from the MMEA program
Globally there is a growing need to control emissions and to monitor the environment and
industrial processes. Global trends indicate that more public databases will be opened.
There are also new opportunities in the increasing power of scientific computing, sensor &
monitoring technologies and ICT technology generally.
The future of environmental metrics
The aim of the MMEA research consortium is to develop new tools, standards and methods
for environmental measurement, monitoring and decision support, that are attractive to
both the national and international markets. The program promotes new applications and
services, based on environmental data, to improve the energy and material efficiency of
infrastructures and industrial processes.
The program combines the development of new measurement technologies, data quality
assurance methods, modeling and forecasting tools, and information and communication
technology (ICT) infrastructure. These are needed to create the integrated environmental
observation networks and environmental decision support systems of the future. The
general concept is described in figure 1 below.
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EE SERVICES
EE
DEVELOPMENT
DATA FUSION
& MODELING
INTEGRATION
OBSERVATION
NETWORKS DATA
MANAGEMENT
INSTRUMENTS,
MEASURING
SYSTEMS
SENSORS,
COMPONENTS
Figure 2. MMEA Value Chain
• EE= environmental efficiency
MMEA Program Manager;
Petri Koponen Ph.D.
Phone: +358 (0)40 660 9709
petri.koponen@cleen.fi
CLEEN Ltd, Helsinki, c/o
MIKES Metrology,
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland ltd.

2. Smart business development
environments
Metso Automation 6,68%, Vaisala Oyj 14,77%,
Agnico Eagle Finland 0,30%, Gasum Oy 0,43%,
Helsingin Energia 1,36%, Jyväskylän Energia
0,57%, Kemira Oy 0,56%, Proventia Emission
Control Oy 1,87%, Wärtsilä Oyj 1,52%, A-Lab
Oy 0,81%, Cubio Communication Oy 2,07,
Dekati 1,16%, Eigenor Oy 3,62, FatmanOy
1,09%, Harp Technologies Oy 2,20%, Indmeas
Oy 2,67%, Luode Consulting Oy 0,65%, Modu-
light Oy 1,49%, Numerola Oy 0,89%, Pegasor
5,97%, Lentokuva Oy 2,11%, Space Systems
Oy 0,94%, HSY 0,98%, Measurepolis Develop-
ment Oy 1,27%, Aalto korkeakoulu/TKK 2,74%
FMI 6,91%, Helsinki Metropolia University of
Applied Sciences 1,15%, MIKES 1,65%, MTT
Agrifood reearch 1,11% SYKE 2,64&, TUT (TTY)
8,44%, University of Eastern Finland 1,48%
University of Helsinki 2,00%, University of
Oulu 4,34%, VTT 7,48% FGI 1,80%,
Contribution in work packages partner by
partner and share in % of total program
share (without CLEEN commission)
Benchmarking energy efficient indoor
environments
MMEA develops new applications that deliver relevant environmental information to
various end-users worldwide for sustainable decision making and enable more efficient
utilisation of measurement data in environmental monitoring, energy production, industrial
processes, civil infrastructure, safety and crisis management and consumer applications.
Application development is enabled by an interoperable, modular, quality controlled
measurement & monitoring platform, the MMEA platform (Figure 3). The platform
consists of 1) the environmental information market place, EnviTori, 2) MMEA Testbed,
and 3) MMEA Framework. The framework provides software, definitions, documentation
and guidelines for implementing interoperable measurement systems, which are also
the basis for MMEA Testbed and the environmental information market place. MMEA
Testbed includes various data sources and processing services that can be accessed via
the framework services. EnviTori provides means for data providers and users to trade
environmental information.
MMEA Testbed is a platform for testing of environmental information and monitoring.
MMEA Testbed resembles and extends the currently operational Helsinki Testbed, which is
made up of several hundred observation stations measuring weather-related parameters.
MMEA Testbed will integrate data from several environmental measurement networks into
a portal to be analysed, modelled and used as raw material for new environmental services.
New measurement technologies will be developed to support the versatile nature of the
platform. When data and tools are easily accessible, innovations can be generated from the
platform, which consists of shared environmental data with embedded quality.
Figure 3. MMEA Platform.
One application of the MMEA platform is an indoor air quality pilot. The pilot provides new
tools for building stakeholders for better control over indoor environment and improved
energy effi ciency. The pilot gives them the possibility to benchmark their buildings and to
optimise their energy use.
The service is based on the MMEA
platform that enables connectivity
with many diff erent data sources,
data transformation, calculation
and messaging services and data
storage. Providers of measurement
systems and services can with
only one mediator connect to this
open source platform and give
access to their measurement data
to various information service
providers and end users.
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for 2010–2015
About CLIC
The core of CLIC Innovation Ltd comprises
the thirty world-leading companies of their
own branch and the most significant
national scientific institutions (17), to which
bioeconomy and cleantech are the main
business drivers and source of scientific
inspiration.
MMEA Factsheet July 2015
Figure4. MMEAindoorairqualitypilot,VTTDigitaloinEspoo,Finland
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Commercial
aspects
MMEA platform Application
ENVITORI
Data sources
and processing
MMEA
TESTBED
Techincal basis
MMEA
FRAMEWORK
END USERSENVIRONMENTAL
MONITORING
APPLICATIONS
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