Organised by HKIE ITD
Programme Highlights
Participants will have chance to visit two of the research laboratories in PolyU to learn more about how the University fosters Smart City innovations through interdisciplinary research, innovative technologies and platforms:
- Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics:
The Lab aims to develop an area of excellence on Smart Cities with focuses on: (a) innovating and developing cutting-edge Smart City technologies, (b) transferring these technologies to industry, and (c) providing Smart City solutions to Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the World.
The ultimate goal of Smart City development is to improve people’s lives. This Lab has innovated and developed new technologies along this direction. These include, for example:
- Smart Environment: Technologies for air quality monitoring in the Greater Bay Area using long-term satellite images, light pollution monitoring and standards for Macao using 3D GIS and lighting models, and urban heat island studies using remote sensing and 3D GIS;
- Smart Mobility: Methods for people and goods mobility pattern analytics, technologies of integrating satellite positioning and multiple sensors technologies for seamless outdoor and indoor positioning and navigation;
- Smart Governance: 3D spatial data infrastructure for data interoperability between agencies;
- Smart Economy: Studies of the urban economy, such as housing prices;
- Smart Living: Studies on spatial distribution of overall patterns of the elderly and individual elderly in Hong Kong;
- Smart People: Proposing education programs in Smart City and urban informatics.
Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary area which widely covers spatial big data analytics, spatial data infrastructure, IoT, cloud and edge computing, and artificial intelligence. Our Lab provides such an interdisciplinary research platform for fostering Smart City innovations, and I am looking forward to working together with you to achieve a higher quality life for people in smarter cities worldwide.
- Remote Sensing Laboratory:
Remote Sensing Laboratory is newly established under the Department of Land Surveying and Geo- Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is a continued effort of the Department’s Remote Sensing Research Group. It is located at ZB213 of Block Z of the University.
The Laboratory aims to implement high-impact and high-quality research through cross disciplinary collaborations among faculties/schools and other UGC institutions, provide new insight into a wider range of research areas, and maximize their impact and benefit to society. Apart from continuing to focus on the environmental applications of the state-of-the-art remote sensing systems, as well as the development of techniques to enhance the usefulness of these systems, the Laboratory also expands its research endeavours to the application of remote sensing technologies in teaching and learning. The recent initiatives of the Laboratory include the use of remote sensing and GIS in urban heat island effect, vegetation and ecosystems, spectral mixture analysis, dust aerosol retrieval, water and air quality monitoring, smart city tree management, artificial intelligence, and the use of iBeacon technology for engaging teaching and learning experiences.
Language
Cantonese
Speaker
Scholars from Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Registration & Enquiries
This technical visit is free of charge. Number of participants is limited to
30 and applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. For registration, please apply
on or before 3 Dec 2022 via the
>>>>> online form <<<<< . Successful applicants will be notified by email, together with the place of gathering, not later than one week before the event. For enquiries, please contact Ir Benjamin LUI (
benjaminlui@member.hkie.org.hk).
Report
Reported by Ir Benjamin LUI
Technical visit to Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics and Remote Sensing Laboratory of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was successfully held on 7 Jan 2023. There were 30 HKIE members attended. Participants had learnt more about how the University fosters Smart City innovations through interdisciplinary research, innovative technologies and platforms.
Prof John W.Z. SHI , Director of Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics, introduced and demonstrated various cutting-edge Smart City technologies covering the use of spatial big data analytics, spatial data infrastructure, IoT, cloud and edge computing, and artificial intelligence. Various use cases, like the contribution to COVID-19 control in Hong Kong, were shared and discussed during the visit.
Sr Prof. Charles Man Sing WONG of Remote Sensing Laboratory presented and demonstrated number of systems that make use of remote sensing technology, iBeacon technology and GIS for enhancing smart city tree management, water and air quality monitoring, and also engaging teaching and learning experiences. Jockey Club Smart Tree Management Project should be one of the well-known examples.
Our members enjoyed the time discussing with the scholars of the laboratories about the technologies employed and the real-life applications contributing to the society.
On behalf of HKIE ITD, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof. SHI and Sr Prof. WONG for their sharing and insights.