Demos:
Maritime
The Maritime sector has ultimately been responsible for the improved standard of global living achieved in the last half-century. Around 90% of traded goods are carried via the sea, and without container ships it’s hard to imagine that the current level of globalisation could have been achieved.
The World Avatar™ has been applied to connect this key sector to adjacent sectors, including air quality and energy. As more demos become publicly available they will be displayed here.
Ship Emissions
Part of the DOME 4.0 project, the virtual sensor use case combines raw data from different sources (ship location, weather, topography etc.) as well as results from multiple software to generate estimates of air quality around harbours. This is achieved using the World Avatar ecosystem, enabling interoperability between different data sources.
The agent ecosystem allows models to be wrapped around by agents. In this case, emissions from ships are calculated by an agent utilising a surrogate model generated by MoDS, whereas dispersion of the pollutants are handled by an agent using AERMOD. The World Avatar provides a consistent framework to connect data from different sources and allows simulation of pollutant dispersion to be performed for any geographical location; an example is shown for the Plymouth Sound (UK) area.
For more information about DOME 4.0, visit the website.