CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) Yodchanan Wongsawat has inspected Chiang Mai Province to officially distribute state-funded environmental innovations, delivering newly developed clean air and water management systems to local authorities across eight northern provinces. The Deputy Prime Minister led a senior delegation to hand over positive-pressure dust-reduction rooms and the “FloodBoy” flood-monitoring system. This deployment reflects the ministry’s policy of commercializing advanced scientific research and scaling up concrete solutions for the upper northern region’s chronic PM2.5 and monsoon-flooding crises.
The Deputy Prime Minister stated that MHESI prioritizes using indigenous technological research to systematically resolve regional ecological challenges. He highlighted that the ministry coordinates the public sector, provincial universities, state research fellows, private industry, and local communities to develop tailored ecological tools. He noted that MHESI will continue to pioneer modern environmental governance systems, including real-time air quality monitors, computerized smoke prediction models, and the “FloodBoy” disaster-prevention suite, to improve the quality of life for at-risk border populations.
During the visit, the delegation inspected disaster-prevention exhibitions featuring remote water-level sensors, community-level air-quality warning networks, and the “Fast Detection, Fast Access, Fast Extinguishment” digital wildfire-fighting platform. Technical directors demonstrated artificial intelligence-driven patrol systems that map pinpoint fire coordinates alongside ultra-high-precision geoinformatics. These geospatial maps use centimeter-level terrain data to model urban runoff and identify drainage obstructions. The exhibition also displayed autonomous reforestation drones and clean solar-powered pumping systems designed to protect the municipality of Chiang Mai from flash floods. (NNT)
