NEPHELE: Enabling Europe’s Next-Generation Smart Infrastructure

NovelSense is part of the NEPHELE Horizon Europe project NEPHELE is a major European research and innovation project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe program. Its mission: to build open, flexible digital platforms that seamlessly connect cloud, edge, and IoT systems. By enabling the management of hyper-distributed data and applications, NEPHELE supports cities and industries[…]

Real-Time Insights on Urban Air Quality and Traffic

Unexpected Findings on the Role of Traffic in Fine Particulate Pollution Urban air pollution remains a critical challenge across Europe. Recent results from the DEUS Pollutrack project, presented at the Kolloquium Luftqualität an Straßen 2025, provide new high-resolution insights into the complex relationship between traffic and air pollution in smaller urban areas. By deploying over 80[…]

Project Completion: SYNTRA – Synthetic Traffic Data Generation for Reliable AI in Mobility

Enabling next-generation AI and mobility solutions through automated, GDPR-compliant synthetic data as-a-service. Project Completion: SYNTRA – Synthetic Traffic Data Generation for Reliable AI in MobilitySYNTRA, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, marks the successful completion of a 10-month experiment advancing synthetic data generation for mobility. The project brought together NovelSense, Fraunhofer IOSB, SDIL, Know-Center, and[…]

High-Resolution Mapping of Fine Particulate Matter in Teltow – Berlin: Mobile and Stationary Measurements for Better Air Quality

The publication “High-Spatial Resolution Maps of PM2.5 Using Mobile Sensors on Buses: A Case Study of Teltow City, Germany, in the Suburb of Berlin, 2023” was published on December 15, 2024, in the journal Atmosphere. Led by a German-French research team, this study analyzed fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution in Teltow, a suburb of Berlin, using mobile[…]