Air quality meter will initially provide data to a service for those who run one of the kindergartens in Gjesdal.
The highly trafficked E39 runs right through the village of Ålgård in Gjesdal. If air pollution is too high, getting the nursery know.
– Then they can either keep kids indoors, or they can take the kids on an excursion somewhere else. It says Trond Furenes, CEO of IT company, F5 IT at Forus.
Later, data from air measurement is also used to say something about how air quality will come, in other places in the municipality . When put together with information on traffic patterns and wind and weather in general.
the general manager of IT company F5 IT, Trond Furenes, believes that Gjesdal is a perfect municipal introducing smartby technology in.
Photo: Ingvar Nordmark / NRK
Ålgård smartby
IT company, where Trond Furenes’s general manager, is cooperating with the energy company Lyse and with Innovation Norway, to introduce smart technology in Gjesdal.
Besides air quality measurement they are working on being able to measure and notify danger of flooding in the municipality.
Twenty residences were evacuated in Oltedal in Gjesdal during a severe flood a few years ago.
Photo: Jan Ove Høgsveen
using sensors in rivers, paired with information from the Meteorological Institute, it will be possible to predict the risk of flooding in a better way than today.
This is especially important for those deciding on when roads should be shut down or that the areas to be evacuated.
– This leaves those responsible for making efforts in the municipality, a scientific basis for their choices, says Trond Furenes, CEO of IT company F5 IT.
Want with citizens
on an office at the town hall sits Eva Maria Gartner. She is project manager for smartby initiative to Gjesdal.
the project for introducing smartby technology in Gjesdal, Eva Maria Gartner, will have residents in deciding.
Photo: Ingvar Nordmark / NRK
in addition to the air quality and water resources research, she is concerned about how all the industrial buildings in the center of Ålgård can be attached to a separate local hydropower plants.
But the most important thing is that citizens should be involved in the development of a smart community.
– Citizens should describe what they need, and so we must try to come up with good solutions. To find the, we must obviously also include the local business community, which has many good ideas, says Gartner.
Gjesdal is perfect
Gjesdal, with its 11,000 residents is a perfect council to introduce smartby technology, says Furenes.
– Gjesdal is just the right size municipality, and the management is extremely forwards, says Furenes, why the choice fell on this particular municipality.
Furenes also revealed a whole host of other municipalities have expressed interest to participate as pilot municipality.
the plan to Furenes, is that the experiences they do in Gjesdal, can be used to build up similar projects in other municipalities.
– This is not a one-time solution, but something that can be transferred to other municipalities both in Norway and internationally, he said.
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