As a part of their Smart City Mission, Itanagar authorities want to create a perfect amalgamation of maintaining the natural beauty while establishing new technological and infrastructure facilities in the city. Oizom deployed its ambient air monitoring device Polludrone to obtain hyperlocal pollution data and understand the impact of pollution in heavily humid areas. It enabled real-time data assessment to understand the impacts and take effective actions. To accomplish its smart city mission, Itanagar envisioned a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) strategy which has 5 pillars. One of its pillars is Technology and Innovation that focuses on implementing technological facilities to combat various issues. One key issue also includes the higher pollution rate in the city. Itanagar is a hilly city, with an elevation of 320 m. This makes the city more prone to pollution concentration. The vehicles which are mostly designed to operate at one atmospheric pressure perform poorly at such high altitudes. This results in the emission of greater amounts of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. The phenomenon creates photochemical smog, which is further elevated by the increased solar radiation of higher altitudes. Thus, a system was needed to monitor vehicular emissions. Polludrone also monitors the emission around the Itanagar airport to monitor its impact on the environment. It measures all the major pollutants present in the ambient air, to give a 360-degree understanding of the environment. Detecting pollution at such high altitudes can get difficult, due to cold weather and lower pressures. But Polludrone is capable of monitoring pollution even at extreme conditions, and provide accurate data. The authorities can access the data from the device in real-time. Acquiring environmental data from all corners of the city will help them in implementing solutions for it. The data is analyzed in the Oizom data analysis platform which helps in understanding the pollution scenario and take effective measures before the situation gets worse. Through their efficient approach to tackle all the problems, Itanagar is proving to be an exemplary smart city in all aspects.

1. ITANAGAR SMART CITY

2. Project Overview
As a part of their Smart City Mission, Itanagar
authorities want to create a perfect amalgamation
of maintaining the natural beauty while
establishing new technological and infrastructure
facilities in the city. Oizom deployed its ambient
air monitoring device Polludrone to obtain
hyperlocal pollution data and understand the
impact of pollution in heavily humid areas. It
enabled real-time data assessment to understand
the impacts and take effective actions.
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Itanagar City
Pollution in Itanagar

3. Details of Project
Client:
Location: Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh)
Application: Smart City Monitoring
Project Brief: A mission towards creating an exemplary smart city
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4. Problem Statement
To accomplish its smart city mission, Itanagar envisioned a
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) strategy which has 5
pillars. One of its pillars is Technology and Innovation that
focuses on implementing technological facilities to combat
various issues. One key issue also includes the higher
pollution rate in the city.
Itanagar is a hilly city, with an elevation of 320 m. This makes
the city more prone to pollution concentration. The vehicles
which are mostly designed to operate at one atmospheric
pressure perform poorly at such high altitudes. This results in
the emission of greater amounts of hydrocarbons and carbon
monoxide. The phenomenon creates photochemical smog,
which is further elevated by the increased solar radiation of
higher altitudes. Thus, a system was needed to monitor
vehicular emissions.
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Aerial view of Itanagar

5. Solution offered by Oizom
To understand the effect of
increasing urbanization and
vehicular emission, Oizom installed
a network of ambient air
monitoring device Polludrone. The
device tracks and monitors the
vehicular emissions in the city and
provides hyperlocal pollution data.
This helps in determining its
source and also pinning down the
most polluted areas across the city.
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Polludrone installed in Itanagar

6. Solution offered by Oizom
Polludrone also monitors the emission around the Itanagar airport to monitor its impact on the environment. It
measures all the major pollutants present in the ambient air, to give a 360-degree understanding of the
environment. Detecting pollution at such high altitudes can get difficult, due to cold weather and lower
pressures. But Polludrone is capable of monitoring pollution even at extreme conditions, and provide accurate
data.
The authorities can access the data from the device in real-time. Acquiring environmental data from all corners
of the city will help them in implementing solutions for it.
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7. Solution offered by Oizom
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Oizom Polludrone installed at various places across Itanagar

8. Impact of Project Implementation
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The data is analyzed in the Oizom data analysis platform which helps in understanding the pollution scenario
and take effective measures before the situation gets worse. Through their efficient approach to tackle all the
problems, Itanagar is proving to be an exemplary smart city in all aspects.
Way Forward
What Itanagar wants to achieve through their smart city mission is to provide higher living standards to the
citizens. And monitoring ambient air quality is a part of it, as it aims to reduce the concentrated pollution in the
environment and offer cleaner air to the people.

9. Without us !
With us :)
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