Partners
The hackAIR project practiced a multi-disciplinary approach. The consortium includes 6 partners from different complementary domains: ICT, air quality research, environmental technologies, social sciences, environmental policy, and communications on sustainability issues.
The partners respresent 5 European countries, namely Greece, Norway, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Members of the consortium have strong experience in CAPS and Citizen Observatories EU projects through their involvement in previously funded projects.
DRAXIS (Greece) coordinates hackAIR. It is an environmental software SME with strong experience in providing solution development and implementation of Environmental Technologies. DRAXIS has expertise on environmental applications and air quality monitoring, as well as design, management and implementation of R&D and innovation projects at national and EU levels.
The Democritus University of Thrace, Crevis Sprl and the Technological Educational Institute of Athens contribute as third parties affiliated to Draxis Environmental S.A.
Contact person: Panagiota Syropoulou
NILU (Norway) is a research foundation with a leading European role in environmental research and in developing State-of-the-Art environmental information systems on air pollution, and on the effects of pollution on ecosystems, human health and materials. NILU focuses on air pollution and its effects and with expertise on monitoring air pollution and data fusion.
Contact person: Hai-Ying Liu
CERTH (Greece) is an ICT research centre active in industry-oriented research. The Multimedia Knowledge and Social Data Analytics laboratory, which will participate in the hackAIR project on behalf of CERTH, has significant experience in the collection, indexing, mining and integration of multimedia, social network and environmental data from heterogeneous Internet sources.
Contact person: Natasa Moumtzidou
BUND (Germany) is a European grassroots NGO with more than 400.000 members and supporters that has an existing members’ network on air quality. BUND aims to protect the environment, and, among others, it strives to tackle the causes and the impacts of air pollution.
Contact person: Arne Fellermann
SMIT (Belgium) is a research group founded in 1990 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. SMIT is also part of the iMinds institute, specialized in fundamental, applied and contract research in the area of ICT and media, markets and policy. SMIT specializes in social scientific research on media and ICT, with an emphasis on innovation, policy and socio-economic questions. SMIT has extensive experience in the context of conducting CAPS projects for social innovation, and more specifically related to the task of raising awareness, engaging users, measuring impact and setting up pilot experimentations.
Contact person: Carina Veeckman
ON:SUBJECT (The Netherlands) is a consulting SME with expertise in the development and implementation of communications strategies on sustainability issues, that activate communities, using insights from behavioural psychology and social network theory.
Contact person: Wiebke Herding
Advisory board
Francesco Pilla
Dr Francesco Pilla is lecturer in the Department of Planning and Environmental Policy…
Jorge García Vidal
Dr. Jorge García Vidal is a Telecommunications Engineer. Since 2003, he is full professor…
Hester Volten
Dr. Hester Volten has been working as an air quality scientist at the National Institute of Public Health…
Stavros Lounis
Mr. Stavros Lounis is the Director of Gamifico Limited…
Giuseppe De Carlo
Mr. Giuseppe De Carlo is project manager at the European Federation of Allergy and…
Mel Woods
Ms. Mel Woods is expert in Art and Design at the Dundee University…
Nils Jacob Berlan
Dr. Nils Jacob Berland is CTO at Sensar.io in Norway…
Highlights and insights
hackAIR started in 2016 as a project to develop an open technology toolkit for citizens’ observatories on air quality. It was supported through the EU programme on “Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation” until December 2018. As we’re coming to the end of the project, we want to celebrate some of the highlights with you: three years hackAIR…
Here is a special treat for hackAIR users who are interested in more ways to visualise their sensor data. We have received this awesome work from Jo Torsmyr, a hackAIR user from Norway. Here is what he sent us: I am using Node-RED and Node-RED Dashboard to collect and visualize data from my hackAIR sensor. The hackAIR dashboard for my sensor…
Results
- Towards Air Quality Estimation Using Collected Multimodal Environmental Data
Moumtzidou, A., Papadopoulos, S., Vrochidis, S., Kompatsiaris, I., Kourtidis, K., Hloupis, G., Stavrakas, I.,
Papachristopoulou, K., Keratidis, C.
Sept 2016, in Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness. Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Vol. 10078
Repository link: arXiv.org | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_7 - Mapping urban air quality in near real-time using observations from low-cost sensors and model information
Schneider, P., Castell, N., Vogt, M., Dauge, F. R., Lahoz, W. A., Bartonova, A.
June 2017, in Environment International 106
Repository link: ScienceDirect | DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.05.005 - Citizen Science Is in the Air – Engagement Mechanisms from Technology-Mediated Citizen Science Projects Addressing Air Pollution
McCrory, G., Veeckman, C., Claeys, L.
Nov 2017, in International Conference on Internet Science (pp. 28-38)
Repository link: ResearchGate | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_3 - Open-Source Monitoring, Search and Analytics Over Social Media
Schinas, M., Papadopoulos, S., Apostolidis, L., Kompatsiaris, Y., Mitkas, P. A.
Nov 2017, in International Conference on Internet Science (pp. 361-369)
Repository link: Zenodo | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_28 - hackAIR: Towards raising Awareness about Air Quality in Europe by developing a Collective Online Platform
Kosmidis, E., Syropoulou, P., Tekes, S., Schneider, P., Spyromitros-Xioufis, E., Riga, M., Charitidis, P., Moumtzidou, A., Papadopoulos,S., Vrochidis, S., Kompatsiaris, I., Stavrakas, I., Hloupis, G., Loukidis, A., Kourtidis, K., Georgoulias, A., Alexandri, G.
May 2018, in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7 (5)
Repository link: ResearchGate | DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7050187 - An Ontology-based Decision Support Framework for Personalized Quality of Life Recommendations
Riga, M., Kontopoulos, E., Karatzas, K., Vrochidis, S., Kompatsiaris, I.
May 2018, in Decision Support Systems VIII: Sustainable Data-Driven and Evidence-Based Decision Support
Repository link: Zenodo | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1196022 - Towards improved air quality monitoring using publicly available sky images
Spyromitros-Xioufis, E., Moumtzidou, A., Papadopoulos, S., Vrochidis, S., Kompatsiaris, Y., Georgoulias, A. K., Alexandri, G., Kourtidis, K.
June 2018, in Multimedia Technologies for Environmental & Biodiversity Informatics
Repository link: Zenodo | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76445-0_5 - Twitter-based Sensing of City-level Air Quality
Charitidis, P., Spyromitros-Xioufis, E., Papadopoulos, S., Kompatsiaris, I.
June 2018, in Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP), 2018 IEEE 13th. IEEE
Repository link: Zenodo | Slideshare | DOI: 10.1109/IVMSPW.2018.8448704 - Performance Assessment of a Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensor for a near Four-Month Period in Oslo, Norway
Liu, H.-Y., Schneider, P., Haugen, R., Vogt, M.
January 2019, in Atmosphere 2019, 10, 41
Repository link: MDPI | DOI: 10.3390/atmos10020041 - Joint Statement on new opportunities for air quality sensing – lower-cost sensors for public authorities and citizen science initiatives
Schade, S., Herding, W., Fellermann, A., Kotsev, A.
June 2019, in Research Ideas and Outcomes 5, e34059
Repository link: RIO Journal | DOI: 10.3897/rio.5.e34059
- D1.3 1st Data Management Plan (June 2016)
- D1.4 2nd Data Management Plan (June 2017)
- D1.5 3rd Data Management Plan (December 2018)
- D1.6 1st Report of Advisory Board meetings (June 2017)
- D1.7 1st Report of Advisory Board meetings (December 2018)
- D2.4 Report on co-creation of services (June 2017)
- D3.1 1st Environmental node discovery, indexing and data acquisition (September 2016)
- D3.2 2nd Environmental node discovery, indexing and data acquisition (June 2017)
- D3.5 1st Design Guidelines for Open Sensor Fabrication (September 2016)
- D3.6 2nd Design Guidelines for Open Sensor Fabrication (June 2017)
- D4.1 Developed and tested data fusion algorithm for use in the pilot study activities (June 2017)
- D4.2 Semantic integration and reasoning of environmental data (June 2017)
- D5.1 Architecture and Integration Framework Definition Specification (July 2016)
- D5.2 1st version of integrated and tested hackAIR open platform (August 2017)
- D5.3 Final version of integrated and tested hackAIR open platform(October 2018)
- D6.1 Engagement strategy for hackAIR community involvement (August 2017)
- D6.2 Behavioural Change techniques for hackAIR community (August 2017)
- D6.3 Social media monitoring tools for assessment and support of engagement (August 2017)
- D7.1 Pilot plan (August 2017)
- D7.2 Evaluation and impact assessment framework (August 2017)
- D7.3 Pilot training and testing materials (November 2017)
- D7.4 Intermediate pilot implementation and evaluation report (February 2018)
- D7.5 Pilot implementation report (December 2018)
- D7.6 Report on hackAIR updated support services and methodologies (December 2018)
- D7.7 Pilot implementation and final evaluation report:pilot performance and impact of hackAIR (December 2018)
- D7.8 Report on procedures followed and lessons learnt (December 2018)
- D8.1 Communication and dissemination strategy (March 2016)
- D8.3 Dissemination pack (October 2016)
- D8.4 Network of Interest established (first meeting report) (December 2016)
- D8.5 Plan for hackAIR workshop tour (August 2017)
- D8.6 hackAIR workshop toolkit (November 2017)
- D8.7 Network of Interest workshop report (December 2017)
- D8.9 Network of Interest closing meeting report (December 2018)
- hackAIR presentation (ppt | Slideshare)
- Brochure (2018 | 2016) | Publishable Summary (2018)
- hackAIR Posters (pdf files)
- Sticker (2018) | hackAIR Postcard (2016)
- hackAIR logo: full colour, white, small version
- Visual identity (2016)
