Source: New York Times

Project Title: Artificial Intelligence for Smart Adaptation of Indoor Space Management to Airborne Transmission Mitigation Pathways

Funding: $210,000 (2023-2024)

Project Partners:

		Concordia University – SEISE Lab The Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Systems Engineering Lab (SEISE), led by Dr. Nasiri, is at the forefront of systems engineering solutions for sustainable energy and infrastructure applications: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~fuzhan/
	Humanitas Inc. Humanitas is a leader in telecommunication, robotics, and AI applications in situational awareness in Quebec, Canada, and globally: https://www.humanitas.io/about-us
			MITACS Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems: https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/accelerate#professor

Project Team

The research partnership team involves Dr. Fuzhan Nasiri (PI) and Drs. Fariborz Haghighat and Zhi Chen (Co-PIs) at Concordia University, and Humanitas team led by Dr. Abdo Shabah.

Project Description

The proposed R&D partnership project aims at developing intelligent on-demand monitoring and control tools for interior space, such as workplace/space facilities, management adaptation in response to airborne infection disease transmission mitigation strategies as a means of assisting the reopening of workplaces and expediting the Post-COVID economic recovery. On that basis, an AI-based workspace planning approach will be proposed integrating space-occupancy-technology requirements. This paves the path to propose an IoT-based intelligent requirement monitoring system that receives sensory information on the state of indoor environment and occupancy to support an adaptive workspace planning. These intelligent tools are established in line with adaptation pathways of workspace to COVID-19 mitigation and their impacts on the indoor environmental conditions.