Sustainability / Google Cloud / AI for Good
Designing cooler cities, one shaded street at a time.
A decision-support platform for improving urban thermal comfort by helping planners identify effective shade canopy locations based on sun paths, heat exposure, and location data.
Context
Developed during the Intelligent Planet Hackathon hosted by KFUPM in collaboration with Google Cloud.
Urban planners need better tools to understand heat exposure and identify where shade canopies can improve thermal comfort over time. Traditional planning may not fully account for sun paths, location data, and changing heat exposure patterns.
Althil helps planners identify where shade canopies would be most effective based on sun paths, heat exposure, and location data.
Backend Developer & Cloud Architecture Contributor
Althil supports sustainable cooling strategies by helping cities improve comfort without increasing energy consumption.
My role
Responsibilities focused on shaping the solution, connecting technical choices to user needs, and helping move the idea into a coherent working concept.
Technical architecture
Each case study is grounded in a practical technical approach, from local AI knowledge design to cloud-native analysis and behavioral analytics.
Location & sun data
01BigQuery analysis
02Vertex AI scoring
03Shade recommendation
04Engineering notes
Decisions
The choices that mattered most — and the thinking behind each one.
Built on Cloud Run, BigQuery, and Vertex AI so the analysis could scale and stay maintainable — and so the team could move fast inside hackathon time limits.
Added a conversational layer so planners get the reasoning behind each shade recommendation, not just a score they have to trust blindly.
Key features
Impact
Althil supports sustainable cooling strategies by helping cities improve comfort without increasing energy consumption.
This project strengthened experience in cloud-native design, data-driven decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration under real constraints.
Inside the product
A handcrafted preview of the experience — drawn to show the idea, not a stock screenshot.
Google Cloud
Run · BigQuery · Vertex AI
KFUPM × GC
Intelligent Planet Hackathon
Cooling, not cost
Comfort without more energy
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