The document describes an environmental IoT project called VasP that aims to gather micro-environmental data using sensor-equipped vehicles to provide information on air pollution levels. Currently, air pollution monitoring stations cannot provide high-resolution data for specific locations. VasP seeks to fill this gap by mapping factors like carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide and more to evaluate living risk indexes and help people choose less polluted areas. The project exhibited successfully at an event and received feedback supporting measuring additional factors like PM2.5 and pursuing correlations between data points.

1. Environmental IoT
project “VasP”

2. LET’S AVOID AIR POLLUTION
FORYOUR HEALTH
we can do it with “VasP”

3. VALUE OF
“MICRO ENVIRONMENTAL
DATA”

4. imagine…
You’re plaining to play outside with your
children in holiday

5. DANGER!
DANGER!
DANGER!
DANGER!
Then, you find the air monitoring stations show like this …
What will you do?
Are you staying at home? Are you going outside without
any care…?

6. PLEASE REMEMBER,
“AIR POLLUTION CAN KILL PEOPLE”

7. 1.6 million
people per year
died by Air Pollution in China
17% of whole death

8. how about in United States?
• 300,000/year : Obesity related deaths
• 101,000/year : Deaths due to lack of health care
• 88,000/year :Air pollution related deaths (reported by US EPA)
• 16,500/year : murders
• 4,300/year : pedestrians killed by automobiles
5% of whole death
Is it small? or big?

9. +27%
+10ppb
“Lung cancer risk” per “SO2 density”
reported by Japanese Ministry of the Environment in 2008
researched over 10 year in 3 capital cities
*10 ppb = 0.0000001%

10. Yearly average of PM2.5：12μg/m3 → 13μg/m3
Number of Asthma patients：46,000 → 140,000
Expectation reported by US EPA

11. We already had data accumulation…
Why such less awareness?
↓
Shortage of the data resolution
We don’t know actual situation “right here, right there”

12. DISTRIBUTION OF CURRENT
MONITORING STATIONS
If the place taking over 1 hour driving from San Francisco City is 30% less of lung cancer
risk ….Will you go there with your children just for playing at the park?

13. high-resolution mapping
produced byVasP
max 4.7ppm = 4700ppb difference
→ lung cancer risk about x100
not 100% up , 100 times!
This is the value of “micro environmental information”
marina
near 101
Now, you can choose where you play!
*less than 1 mile
between 2 places

14. what is “VasP”
<MISSION>
gather and provide
“micro environmental information”
all over the Earth
* Vehicle as Probe =VasP

15. VasP unit
battery
mobile network
sensors
GPS
* Vehicle as Probe =VasP

16. J-POP SUMMIT REVIEW
8th - 9th Aug. ’15
@Fort Mason Center in San Francisco

17. EXHIBITION
gathered CO, CO2, NO2, Ozone, SO2,
temperature, humidity, pressure, noise,
UV, ambient light by bicycles
mapped each data on web application

18. LRI = LIVING RISK INDEX
our original index evaluating air pollution level connected with
death and disease risk
we knew mission area is
better than market for
living, but it’s shown as
difference of “living risk”…
the behavior of consumers
could be changed
market
mission

19. MAJOR FEEDBACKS
• Recommendation to measure PM2.5
and radiation (and pollen)
• Lower awareness of environmental
issues in SF (where is the best place?)
• Correlations between multiple
factors might make next innovation
(nobody tried) Mr. Furukawa
(former president of Microsoft Japan)
Mr. Sugano
(data scientist)

20. BUSINESS MODEL

21. make profit in each directions
BUSINESS STRATEGY
vehicle
operators
VasP
government
/business/
consumer
data
$
sensor unit
$
services
data
services

22. TRACTION

23. COLLABORATION #1
“Simularity”
correlation Census data withVasP data
Startup company in Richmond City

24. COLLABORATION #1
“Simularity”
we won the competition of Industrial Hackathon in “Meeting of Mind”
Day1
Day2
Judges: Qualcomm, Cisco, Microsoft, Richmond City

25. TEAM
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yuichiro-kuzuryu-kuz/38/928/27b
yuichiro “kuz” kuzuryu
master degree of electrical engineering atTokyo Institute ofTechnology in Japan
YAMAHA Corp. 8.5 yrs
electrical engineer, project manager and product producer
Miselu Inc. (startup company in SiliconValley) 3.5yrs
hardware architect, director of engineering
YAMAHA Motor US 0.5yrs
hardware engineer
embedded software engineer
SIer
web application engineer
project manager
entrepreneur

26. CONTACT
yuichiro “kuz” kuzuryu
yuichiro_kuzuryu@yamaha-motor.com
qzuryu@kuzlab.com
LinkedIn available

27. (APPENDIX)
EXAMPLE OFTARGET MATERIALS
• air pollution
• CO, CO2, NO2, O3, SO2, toluene, methan, N2O, benzene, etc.
• climate
• temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, UV, ambient light, etc.
• critical risks
• PM2.5, radiation, etc.
• smell and living comfortability
• ammonia, H2S, sound noise, etc.