An air quality management solution for

From space to street-level, from historical to forecasted data

The future of air quality inspired applications will be data-fusion

Accurate hyperlocal data combined with satellite-data downscaling

We deliver the foundation to make this possible

Hawa Dawa provides …

Sensor Networks

Regulatory grade & well-managed air quality networks for increased spatial and temporal accuracy traceable to accepted standards at scale.

Data Insights for easy integration, combination, contextualization and sharing of air quality data and data-driven insights so that air quality managers, practitioners, modellers, traffic operators, researchers, citizens and journalists get the actionable insights they need.

Partner Ecosystem

A growing ecosystem of harmonized partner solutions to close your traffic, weather, population data gaps so that you can fully enjoy an all-in-one environmental intelligence platform.

Selected Case Studies

Traffic Management

Initial Situation and Problem Statement:

The densely populated urban structure and the increasing road traffic present the city administration with the challenge of reducing harmful emissions and sustainably improving air quality without having to resort to drastic and undifferentiated measures, such as general driving bans. This requires a holistic basis of environmental data that has not yet existed.

Solution:

Hawa Dawa’s holistic approach integrates air quality data taking into account other influencing factors and offers data-based analyses, as well as modelling and dynamic forecasts. For this purpose, an intelligent infrastructure for the collection of environmental and traffic data was set up and a data platform was provided for evaluation. On this basis, Hawa Dawa supports the city in the selection of “soft” measures and the measurement of success.

Benefit:

The sustainable basis of environmental data provides the necessary information for optimisation measures for urban transport.
The intuitive web interface for displaying results enables decision-makers to gain deeper insights in a simple way.
In addition, the entire range of possible mobility concepts as well as the effects on neighbouring areas are taken into account.

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More about traffic-related use cases here

Citizen Information

Initial Situation and Problem Statement:

The mid-sized city does not have any air quality data from its own measurement networks. The city considers the collection of its own air quality data to be part of data-based public welfare and urban planning. In addition, great importance is attached to providing information to the citizens. This is to be taken into account both through group-appropriate prepared data and through citizen events.

Solution:

A measurement network based on Sentience IoT measurement devices was implemented. The data is displayed on an intuitively understandable citizen dashboard and on an expert dashboard for the experts in the administration. In addition, the experts receive regular reports that correlate the air pollutants with weather data and thus allow deeper insights. The measurement data will also be made available via API for the city’s Open Data application. Several citizen events rounded off the solution.

Benefit:

The importance of easy-to-understand visualisations for the citizens has been brought into our consciousness by this project.
Actual data have replaced broad assumptions.
The development of own measurement data series can be used to improve future data models.

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Health Management

Initial Situation and Problem Statement:

Ambient, outdoor, pollution is a significant contributor to urban asthma and diabetes events and hospitalisations whilst at the same time actually being a manageable problem with the use of better monitoring technology, granular data analysis and intuitive digital tools. The regional authorities wanted to have tools for mitigating the impact of air pollution for the administration and also for at-risk citizens.

Solution:

Leveraging the huge potential of geospatial and environmental data, historic health and pollution metrics were used as the basis for the development of customer-focused digital tools to help reduce exposure and manage risk. To assist urban health planners, clinicians and authorities a dashboard was developed by combining all relevant parameters – be it health or education, mobility or traffic – into a single digital interface that allows for scenario planning and predictive analysis with the aim of reducing the health risks of pollution.

Benefit:

Facilitated understanding of a complex situation
User-oriented output/interfaces for administration and citizens
Comprehensive data aggregation considers all relevant interrelations of factors.

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Urban Planning

Initial Situation and Problem Statement:

The smaller-sized city has an ambitious plan for becoming a „Smart City“, which puts the wellbeing of its citizens and improvements of the quality of life at the centre of all its efforts. Getting a comprehensive insight into the air quality of the city’s entire built-up area is a major objective.

Solution:

Hawa Dawa established a fully-managed air quality network for the city. Experts from Hawa Dawa worked with the city administration to determine the most appropriate sensor locations, which deliver unbiased and comprehensive data on the air quality within the city. Detailed analytics on the effects of weather conditions, climate, traffic and land use are made available via API for direct and seamless integration into the city’s planning tools.

Benefit:

A comprehensive basis for fact-based decisions of the city administration
A data pool that is accessible by all city departments
A system for better understanding of the implementation of state-of-the-art smart city technologies – from prioritisation to evaluation

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Environmental Nudging

Initial Situation and Problem Statement:

Traffic is a major contributor to air pollution. The objective was to positively influence traffic behaviour, for example, that of daily commuters, to achieve non-critical emission levels throughout the city and to incentivise driving behaviour to have positive effects on pollution.

Solution:

Together with two partners from the traffic / mobility space Hawa Dawa developed data-based route recommendations for encouraging individual drivers to actively (and repeatedly) select their upcoming journeys according to forecast pollutant levels along their most commonly travelled routes. Using anonymized historical trip data, the most commonly travelled routes were estimated and, using Hawa Dawa‘s pollutant forecasts, a more eco-friendly (and in many cases, shorter) route was developed and pushed to drivers. Hawa Dawa’s 24-hour forecasts of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) levels were pivotal to the algorithm being able to form route recommendations for the sample group of drivers.

Benefit:

Empowering individuals to actively change their behaviour for reducing their environmental footprint.
Measurable results for communicating and promoting the impact of environmentally friendly behaviour
Creating an additional pillar for eco-sensitive mobility

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Swisscom

The cooperation with Hawa Dawa has enabled us to validate important assumptions and provide a service which has a profound impact on smart city planning processes

The Gregory Leproux, Head of the Swisscom Digital Lab

Swisscom

BMVI

Air quality is one of the biggest challenges facing urban areas. The future of air quality monitoring could be influenced by the winner of this year’s BMVi Digital Transport Challenge: Hawa Dawa has the relevant tools to support political decision-makers with future planning.

Christiane Hohmeister

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)

City of Ulm

Hawa Dawa impresses with its expert advice. The willingness to face any questions from the administration and the public and to take the perspective of the counterpart with understanding is important for the acceptance in our project.

Lucia Erdt

Digital Agenda of the City Ulm

HERE Technologies

As air quality is relevant for truly everyone, we’re excited to see Hawa Dawa joining the ever-growing list of companies offering their data on the HERE Marketplace which is becoming the one-stop shop for location-based assets in the industry. By having access to real-time pollutant data from Hawa Dawa, developers, data scientists, and business analysts can build and enhance products and services to benefit our health, the environment, and even the economy.

Steve Bonn

HERE Technologies

Helmholtz Munich

We chose Hawa Dawa because the company enjoys a good reputation overall and we ourselves have already had good experiences with this company from a previous collaboration. Above all, the stability of the measurement system, the data quality and the associated scientific preparation of the data are important to us.

Dr. Josef Cyrys

Helmholtz Munich