The Health and Social Care – R&D Division and the Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC) based at Ulster University are looking to further establish their existing partnerships by arranging a series of workshops to facilitate access to NI clinical based Life and Health Science to identify emerging unmet needs in areas of clinical and commercial […]

This year’s Digital Leaders annual lecture keynote will focus on Northern Ireland’s strategies to mitigate the climate emergency through smarter water management. As the Northern Ireland Ambassador for the event, Anaeko will partner with Northern Ireland Water to deliver this year’s annual lecture and panel discussion on the challenges around becoming carbon neutral by 2050.  […]

We are delighted to be Digital Leaders Partner for Northern Ireland this year. We very much support the Digital Leaders mission of building leaders to drive digital transformation across the public sector. This is particularly important in a post pandemic world. For Digital Leaders Week we plan a great programme which includes: A Launch Video […]

Summary of our project findings and future development Summaries of our sensors find there’s a strong repeating pattern as I just mentioned every evening in winter as we turn our heating on. There are always localised events although there can be strong agreement which is reflected in the general weather or the pollution forecast. There’s approximately one serious pollution event every 10 days or so.There’s a 20 percent correlation between […]

Air Quality Data exploration It’s tempting to attribute the issues to purely location there is a relationship between where people live and pollution or is there a relationship that we can demonstrate and this is where our investigation takes a turn and we start looking at air quality.   On this slide you can see for example the kind of air quality services that are publicly available today, and the approach is very similar […]

Geospatial exploration, poverty and respiratory problems One observation that you’re seeing here is a geospatial exploration tool that we built on top of our data hub and it is created to help illustrate the relationship between health deprivation and pollution in a geospatial way.  The screenshot that I selected from that application is an illustration of the divide in Belfast a divide that occurs in most cities and you can see there is a divide between red and […]