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Environmental Informatics 2023

https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/43254
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  • Buch
    EnviroInfo 2023 - Complete Volume
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023)
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Sustainability Assessment for Semi-automated Solar Panels Production Facility
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Fawzi, Ahmed; Ramzy, Amna
    This research work demonstrates the potential of material and energy flow analysis (MEFA) digital tool to address sustainability concerns in Semi-automated production lines in SMEs. The paper presents the application of MEFA on a solar panels’ assembly facility in the MENA region. The importance of thorough data collection is highlighted as it allows for accurate mapping of how materials and energy are flowing through a system especially in case of manual assembly lines. The challenges in data acquisition are addressed and the improvement scenarios are presented by using simple innovative methods such as QR codes to streamline the data collection process, saving time and reducing errors. Overall, this paper demonstrates how material and energy flow modelling can be used to identify areas for improvement in sustainability practices in small and medium enterprises using simple digital tools.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Proof of concept: local precipitation-dependent rainwater management with smart water tanks
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Wybrands, Marius; Bohn, Finn Ole
    The effects of extreme weather events are increasingly having a negative impact on the water and wastewater infrastructure. Due to increasing land sealing in urban areas and more intense rain events, new concepts are needed to relieve the water and wastewater infrastructure. One possible approach is the usage of private rain storage as retention volume without negatively affecting the owner. Therefore, a smart approach is used to manage the rain storage in a situational way. This paper therefore presents a first prototype of a smart water tank, which was used to cover and test initial requirements. The goal was to develop an operational and portable hardware and software prototype early in the project.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Towards Gamification of Advanced Value Stream Analysis and Design: A Game-Based Learning Concept
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Geisthardt, Mick; Engel, Lutz; Schnegelberger, Monika
    Advancing the traditional methodology of value stream analysis and design to include aspects such as material flow cost accounting, information logistics and external influential factors, overall application complexity and increasing data volumes are causing a shift in how improvement teams should think and operate. As a result, also the professional training of students and professionals needs to change and requires new solutions. Existing research efforts have not yet resulted in a solution that can convey advanced value stream analysis and design, including its methodological complexity. To address this gap, this paper applies a tailored CRISP gamification framework to develop a game-based learning concept to enable teaching of advanced value stream analysis and design to students and professionals focusing on identification of multi-stage resource-efficient optimization strategies. Activity cycles and progression stairs of the resulting simulation game concept facilitates innovative education while aiming to promote cognitive, motivational, and behavioral learning.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Towards Fine-Grained Sensor-Based Probabilistic Individual Air Pollution Exposure Prediction using Wind Information
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Tremper, Paul; Riedel, Till
    The estimation of pollutant exposure is highly dependent on the spatial and temporal resolution of the underlying model. This work presents a street-level Gaussian Process Regression model for urban air quality that uses a novel covariance kernel based on physical considerations to process wind information. This model can be driven by information from observations from low-cost sensor networks. We present the model, including the construction of the wind angle kernel, and discuss the inconclusive evaluation to date, the current challenges, and the way forward.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Development of a smart farming dashboard based of 5G mobile Data
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Akyol, Ali; Chahin, Rami; Dillschneider, Eva-Marie; Gerloff, Lars; Grabenhorst, Isabel; Gómez, Jorge Marx; Patil, Akhil; Schattenberg, Jan; Sgraja, Marie; Walther, Sören; Weide, Julian
    This work in progress paper is written as a short description mainly of the backend of project 5G, which is in the field of smart farming. The project focuses on using different technologies and machines for weed management. This work in progress paper highlights the need for efficient weed management. It discusses the problems which are associated with weed management and it raises questions that need to be addressed in this domain. Moreover, the topic of using weed management 5G, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) and field robotics in agricultural and farming services is an important topic at present. Besides, the work in progress paper shows possible technical concepts and processes which can be implemented into smart farming to increase its efficiency. This paper discusses special methods, which can be used in weed management by using AI (artificial intelligence). In addition to the project description, the paper includes an evaluation of the current state of the research and an outlook of potential future research.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Design of a recommender system to improve the environmental impact of companies based on their material and energy balances
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Fayed, Hatem; Wohlgemuth, Volker
    As worldwide agreements aiming to reduce the carbon footprint keep coming into effect, many companies aim to become more efficient in their production process. However, it is costly to hire environmental experts to help with the efficiency and carbon reduction process. This research aims to analyze the possibility of creating a Recommender System (RS) which suggests Carbon Reduction Measures (CRM) to the users based on their Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) reports. Based on the literature review into the latest RS techniques and the available databases, a study was conducted into creating a RS prototype. Analysis of the results demonstrates, that with the currently available databases, it is not possible to create an effective RS. The results indicate that in order to be able to create a functional and useful RS more detailed data needs to be extractable from the LCA tool. Further research is needed into the exports from other Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) and the identification of other factors that could strengthen the effectiveness of the RS.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Proposing a Framework to address the Sustainable Development Goals
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Schult, Prince Garcia; Losse, Ann-Kathrin; Czarnecki, Christian; Sultanow, Eldar
    Reducing poverty, protecting the planet, and improving life on earth for everyone are the essential goals of the "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"committed by the United Nations (UN). Achieving those goals will require technological innovation as well as their implementation in almost all areas of our business and day-to-day life. This paper proposes a high-level framework that collects and structures different uses cases addressing the goals defined by the UN. Hence, it contributes to the discussion by proposing technical innovations that can be used to achieve those goals. As an example, the goal "Climate Actionïs discussed in detail by describing use cases related to tackling biodiversity loss in order to conservate ecosystems.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Design of IT structures in vaguely defined application environments - Experiences from actor interaction in the blue bioeconomy
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Koch, Björn; Lohaus, Christian; Klenke, Thomas
    This contribution focuses at appropriate IT structures for innovative market segments which form an application environment that is only fundamentally defined in digitization efforts. The core feature are vague application profiles for IT structures to be set up, which players in such market segments can use internally, but especially in environmental and social interaction. For the example of the emerging blue bioeconomy, experiences in setting up a cross-location, distributed IT structure are presented, which is geared towards advising and supporting actors in the blue bioeconomy by a diverse team of experts. Key findings lie in (i) the need to integrate different dimensions of vagueness in the treatment of increasingly defined information in a three-layer model of the IT structure, (ii) the development of the IT structure in an open process that takes into account the dynamics of the market sector, and (iii) the constant training of the members of the expert team on content, routines and limitations of the IT structure in consulting of actors.
  • Konferenz-Abstract
    Eco-innovation performance in European Union
    (EnviroInfo 2023, 2023) Bartoszczuk, Pawel
    To date no uniform proposal for measuring and analysing eco-innovation in the literature has been emerged. The main challenges in this regard are the need to establish indicators at micro level, taking into account the life cycle and the separation of eco- efficiency from the economic category of eco-innovation, the definition of levels of eco- innovation analysis and the careful development of data aggregation methods, in addition to understanding the effect of eco-innovation and the relationship of eco-innovation indicators to key indicators for measuring sustainable and sustainable socio-economic development. The effects of eco-innovation can be measured on a micro scale (for product or service, process, enterprise), meso (sector,) and macro. The effects of eco-innovation cannot be always positive. Despite the high investment of companies, eco-innovation activities are producing results in the longer term on a micro scale by reducing the negative impact of its activities on the environment, while at the same time leading to the impact of eco-innovation on the company's performance in the form of lower environmental pollution charges and lower energy costs. The main goal of the article is to prove the thesis that eco-innovation allows countries’ economies to increase their performance in the longer time period. Another aim was to analyse eco-innovation scoreboard data and to unveil the low index value reasons for Central Europe countries. To gain so declared goals, a research question was formulated as follow: do countries with less developed economies have lower eco-innovation performance? The performance measurement was based on secondary data analysis obtained from Eco-innovation observatory. These basic indicators and trends described European countries’ eco-innovations performance. The analysis is based on comparative research and available data. Poland is in the low eco-innovation performance group of countries, as are most Eastern European countries and some Western countries (such as Malta). Even against the background of these countries, there is a great distance of Poland to the new member states e.g. the Czech Republic and Estonia. The results of these indices indicate insufficient implementation of eco-innovation in enterprises in Poland. Currently available data presented by the European Eco-innovation Observatory confirms a significantly insufficient degree of eco-innovation of the Polish economy. On the one hand, there is no pressure on research in new eco-innovative solutions. On the other, academic and R&D centers are unable to satisfy the demands of the industry. It is of key importance that eco-innovations are perceived as the driving factor of the third transformation in Poland and other EU new members (following system transformation and the EU accession).