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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly relevant in the field of mobility, particularly when it comes to traffic detection and management. With the rise of smart cities and autonomous vehicles, AI plays a crucial role in ensuring safe and efficient transportation. At NovelSense, we recognize the importance of AI in the mobility of the future[…]
Intelligent traffic counters can help to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of state-of-the-art mobility offerings and reduce barriers to entry. Making these traffic counters more reliable while requires a lot of data for training and testing. This creates challenges connected to data protection. A big opportunity lies in the usage of simulated data for the[…]
DEUS_SmartAir is a pan-European project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (FMDT). It aims to build the largest EU air quality monitoring grid in a modular concept. Within the project, NovelSense is integrating its ABAKUS.AI into the DEUS system. Air quality continues to be one of the great challenges of the[…]