Harnessing Technology for Climate Resilience: A New Paradigm in Urban Cooling through Eco-friendly Cooler

Bangladesh is increasingly besieged by severe heatwaves due to the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and the pervasive use of heat-generating cooling appliances.While offering temporary relief, conventional cooling methods, such as refrigerant based air cooling systems, are not only unaffordable for most of the population due to their low income but also consume significant energy and intensify the urban heat island phenomenon by releasing heat to the outdoors.The purpose of this work is to develop an innovative, AI-enabled prototype called Eco-friendly Cooler that consists of a metal-organic framework (MOF)-based desiccant dehumidifier, swarm-cooler, and IoT-based sensors to deliver a low cost, sustainable and effective cooling solution based on environmental analysis.A year's worth of data from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh,…