Standard Grant: StaGreen

Grants Proposed
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Introduction

  • Project Name:
    StaGreen: AI-Driven Decentralized Urban Planning and Waste Management

  • Name of the Organization or Individual Submitting the Proposal:
    Samuel Adu-Berekorang, Founder and AI Developer

  • Describe Your Project:
    StaGreen is an AI-powered platform designed to revolutionize urban planning and waste management through secure, decentralized storage. By leveraging Microsoft Azure AI tools and Custom Vision, alongside Sia’s decentralized storage, StaGreen provides innovative solutions to optimize urban sustainability.

StaGreen’s capabilities include:

  • AI-Optimized Waste Management: Predict waste generation patterns and optimize collection routes to reduce fuel usage and emissions.
  • Urban Planning with AI: Analyze land use and drainage systems to mitigate disasters, prevent slums, and build sustainable communities.
  • Decentralized Data Ownership: Store sensitive city data securely on Sia’s network, ensuring user privacy and eliminating dependence on centralized servers.
  • Global Adaptability: Designed for cities worldwide, StaGreen addresses diverse urban challenges with scalable solutions.

StaGreen has been accepted into Microsoft for Startups, securing $20,000 in Azure credits to implement AI capabilities, enhancing its technical foundation, and ensuring a robust platform.

Grant Specifics

  • Amount of Money Requested and Justification:
    $20,000
Month Planned Activities Budget Usage ($)
Month one UI/UX design, platform architecture setup, initial development. $3,000 – Developer pay and design tools.
Month two Develop core features for waste management and urban analytics. $3,000 – Developer pay and feature implementation.
Month three Integrate Sia for decentralized data storage; initiate Azure AI model setup using credits. $4,000 – Developer pay and integration work.
Month four Implement AI-based Custom Vision tools for waste classification (Azure credits cover compute/storage). $3,000 – Testing and refinement.
Month five Pilot testing, feedback collection, and Sia-AI integration adjustments. $4,000 – Testing infrastructure and adjustments.
Month six Deployment-ready platform; publish open-source tools and finalize documentation. $3,000 – Final testing and deployment support.
  • Goals and Timeline for Completion:
Timeline Key Milestones
Month 1: Complete UI/UX design and establish platform architecture.
Month 2: Develop core functionalities for waste management and urban planning analytics.
Month 3: Integrate Sia for decentralized data storage; begin Azure AI model development.
Month 4: Implement AI-based Custom Vision tools for waste type classification and routing.
Month 5: Conduct pilot tests; refine AI and Sia integration based on user feedback.
Month 6: Present StaGreen to the Sia community; gather feedback to fine-tune integrations.
Month 7: Publish open-source tools, finalize platform deployment, and document findings.

Who Benefits from Your Project?

  • Urban Planners and Governments: Gain access to predictive analytics for resource allocation and disaster prevention.
  • Waste Management Authorities: Improve collection routes, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiency.
  • Global Communities: Benefit from sustainable urban layouts, better public health outcomes, and data ownership.
  • Sia Ecosystem: StaGreen’s integration will encourage broader adoption of Sia’s storage by urban developers, governments, and planners. It demonstrates Sia’s ability to solve real-world challenges, enhancing its reputation and market reach.

How Does the Project Serve the Foundation’s Mission of User-Owned Data?

StaGreen directly aligns with Sia’s mission by ensuring that all urban planning and waste management data is decentralized and user-owned. Using Sia’s infrastructure, stakeholders retain full control over sensitive information, fostering privacy and transparency. The platform’s open-source contributions will expand the Sia ecosystem’s reach into urban sustainability.

Are you a resident of any jurisdiction on that list? No

Will your payment bank account be located in any jurisdiction on that list? No

Validation Plan

StaGreen will validate its AI models and decentralized storage integration during pilot testing by tracking:

  • Performance Metrics: Time and cost reductions in waste collection and planning.
  • Accuracy Metrics: AI model effectiveness in waste prediction and facility optimization.
  • User Feedback: Stakeholder satisfaction with data transparency and system usability.

Potential Risks and Mitigation

  • Adoption Barriers: Educate stakeholders on the benefits of decentralization and AI integration through workshops and user-friendly tools.
  • Technical Integration Challenges: Allocate resources for thorough testing and community feedback to address potential issues.

Future Plans

StaGreen aims to expand its contribution to the Sia ecosystem with the following initiatives:

  1. Global Urban Sustainability Platform: Post-deployment, extend StaGreen’s reach to other cities and regions, highlighting Sia’s decentralized capabilities on a global scale.
  2. Advanced Open-Source Tools: Develop and publish additional tools for urban data management, leveraging Sia storage for secure, decentralized solutions.
  3. Community Training: Educate urban developers and government stakeholders about the benefits of Sia’s ecosystem, fostering adoption.
  4. Enhanced Features: Explore AI-driven insights for disaster response, environmental monitoring, and real-time infrastructure optimization using Sia as the data backbone.

Development Information

Contact Information

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Hello, just saw your post… can you give any technical details on what exactly you plan to be storing on Sia and how you are intending to integrate?

Additionally, Additional Funding: $20,000 Azure credits for AI implementation. is confusing. I would not put in your budget anything you are not requesting from the foundation.

(Please note I am a community member, not a foundation rep, so this is just community feedback).

Kudos.

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oh thanks so much for your reply. we plan to store datasets on waste patterns, population density, facility usage, and environmental impact, real-time waste collection stats and geographical analytics (includes citizen, company data , custom vision training data for waste sorting and also AI training data).
Thank youi for the suggestion also, i will make corrections now.

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To be clear… some data is better off in a relational database. Else your just trying to shoehorn engineering just to say it is on Sia.

From a traditional hosting POV, Sia is roughly s3 (object storage). So based on that, what data will you put on Sia that would fit to be stored on s3? And have you done any research yet on using renterd?

Kudos.

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i agree with that. that points to data for custom vision and training (may not be on Sia), but as in our proposal and our mission to decentralize data ownership, usage and other functions, we want to give the stakeholders full control over information and data. I know about renterd and and i host storage myself. Using renterd, we want to upload manageable pieces and encrypt over different hosts possibly, now each chunk of data is divided in a way that if some hosts go offline, data can still be retirived and accessed.Also there will be an interface for users or stake hokders to access data directly on Sia, they retain ownership and control over data. we want to go through the decentralized path throughout, possibly tokenization and all of that, incentives for waste manangement.

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Ok, just to clarify, at a high level you don’t really need to worry about we want to upload manageable pieces and encrypt over different hosts possibly,.

There is a worker API and a s3 layer. The worker is inspired by s3 as well.

As for having users control their data, it depends on what you mean by that. If you mean at the network level with the contracts and what wallet “owns it”, the sia satellite from mike76 is something you may want to research to pull legos from

If it is just a portal where you manage all the data and let them control things, thats very different. I would also state the foundation has tended to be weary? of tokens/smart contracts, and you can search the forums in past grant responses to get a better idea there.

Overall I would suggest you spend some time to understand how your going to do the integrations, as there are many approaches for you: s3/renter api, satellite, s5/ipfs.

Kudos.

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Absolutely, we do understand Sia similar to object storage solutions like the Amazon S3 in AWS. so we will focus on storing data types that align with Sia’s strengths as an object storage provider.
Addressing concerns about token or smart contracts, there won’t be more or any of that as that is not found in our current roadmap, i stated that relating to the taking the decentralization path but that won’t relate with what we are working on atm nor will we do what will go against the foundation. We will ensure that our proposal focuses on practical applications of Sia’s storage capabilities without heavily relying on complex tokenomics or smart contracts that may not align with the foundation’s priorities.

When we mention user control over their data, we refer primarily to providing a user-friendly portal where stakeholders can manage their datasets, such as uploading new data, accessing stored information, and controlling permissions for who can view or interact with specific datasets. and not direct control at the blockchain level (like wallet ownership) but simplified interface.

About integration, i think we will consider few options, Sia as a S3 compatible api, we will research renterd more ofcourse, to explore ways for a bit more control on how data will be mananged, uploads and all of that and the satellite services to mange access, payments and other functions for storage contracts, and overall goall making all the complexities in a simplified interface.

Thank you for you suggestions and comments

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