IEEE CN Smart Cities Santiago Chile
Santiago de Chile is the smartest city in Latin America.
Santiago de Chile is the smartest city in Latin America, according to the Cities in Motion ranking prepared by the IESE Business School. In the global ranking it comes in at number 66. The Chilean capital has become a kind of laboratory where different technologies are tested. Through the Smart City Santiago project, within the Plan Nacional Chile Territorio Inteligente, these initiatives in the field of mobility, environmental control and citizen safety are brought together.
Among other measures, what stand out are the commitment to electric buses and taxis, charging facilities, smart electricity meters or variable message signs on roads. In addition, sensors in cities are a fundamental tool for collecting data of all kinds: from noise, to temperature, to air quality or determining when it is necessary to water a particular park or garden.
This information, for example, is crucial for initiatives such as Smartdrop, a system developed by three Chilean engineers that can reduce park watering by up to 50%. To avoid wasting this unique asset, sensors and information from nearby weather stations are used. Soil moisture and temperature are continuously monitored, allowing, for example, more intensive watering on hot days than on rainy ones.
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- Date: 16 Mar 2023
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence and its impact on Smart Cities
Nowadays, Industry 4.0 can be considered a reality, a paradigm integrating modern technologies and innovations. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered the leading component of the industrial transformation enabling intelligent machines to execute tasks autonomously such as self-monitoring, interpretation, diagnosis, and analysis. AI-based methodologies (especially machine learning and deep learning support manufacturers and industries in predicting their maintenance needs and reducing downtime. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) studies and designs approaches, algorithms and tools producing human-understandable explanations of AI-based systems information and decisions. presents a comprehensive survey of AI and XAI-based methods adopted in the industry 4.0 scenario. First, we briefly discuss different technologies enabling Industry 4.0. Then, we present an in-depth investigation of the main methods used in the literature: we also provide the details of what, how, why, and where these methods have been applied for Industry 4.0. Furthermore, we illustrate the opportunities and challenges that elicit future research directions toward responsible or human-centric AI and XAI systems, essential for adopting high-stakes industry applications. Traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies used in developing smart cities solutions, Machine Learning (ML) and recently Deep Learning (DL), rely more on utilizing best representative training datasets and features engineering and less on the available domain expertise. We argue that such an approach to solution development makes the outcome of solutions less explainable, i.e., it is often not possible to explain the results of the model. There is a growing concern among policymakers in cities with this lack of explain ability of AI solutions, and this is considered a major hindrance in the wider acceptability and trust in such AI-based solutions. In this work, we survey the concept of ‘explainable deep learning’ as a subset of the ‘explainable AI’ problem and propose a new solution using Semantic Web technologies, demonstrated with a smart cities flood monitoring application. Monitoring of gullies and drainage in crucial geographical areas susceptible to flooding issues is an important aspect of any flood monitoring solution. Typical solutions for this problem involve the use of cameras to capture images showing the affected areas in real-time with different objects such as leaves, plastic bottles etc., and building a DL-based classifier to detect such objects and classify blockages based on the presence and coverage of these objects in the images. In this work, we uniquely propose an Explainable AI solution using DL and Semantic Web technologies to build a hybrid classifier. In this hybrid classifier, the DL component detects object presence and coverage level and semantic rules designed with close consultation with experts carry out the classification. By using the expert knowledge in the flooding context, our hybrid classifier provides the flexibility on categorizing the image using objects and their coverage relationships. The experimental results demonstrated with a real-world use case showed that this hybrid approach of image classification has on average 11% improvement (F-Measure) in image classification performance compared to DL-only classifier. It also has the distinct advantage of integrating experts’ knowledge on defining the decision-making rules to represent the complex circumstances and using such knowledge to explain the results.
Biography:
Dr. Eng. Ahmed Alomdah Book Author at Smart cities extensive experience of over 20 years in construction business (Most are in Mega infrastructure projects), He brings us a variety of construction management experience, hydrological studies, competition pricing, including supervising and controlling different project phases, In addition, he wrote his book on smart cities, which was published in 2020, passionate about Quality and Safety, Aiming to obtain an opportunity in a multinational corporation that will further enhance his knowledge and expertise.
Please welcome Dr. Eng. Ahmed Alomdah…
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12:00 pm PDT IEEE Announcements
12:02 pm PDT Introduction of Speaker
12:04 pm PDT Presentation
12:45 pm PDT Q&A
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