Makers of the Plume #AirReport, urban weather forecast and environmental AI to beat air pollution in 40+ countries around the world. For iOS, Watch & Android.
Find out more at https://plumelabs.com/
iSCAPE (Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe) project
As part of the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges funding scheme, engineers from Trinity College Dublin will deploy next-gen environmental living labs in cities across Europe to improve air quality and reduce their carbon footprint.
The engineering team will develop sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives between now and 2019. Find out more at https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/engineers-to-improve-air-quality-in-european-cities-with-living-labs/6383#.VvE37RIrKRs
Citizen Science Used to Map Community Air Quality
Mapping for Change has supported many communities across London to measure and map local air quality. A ‘citizen science’ approach has meant local residents in over 30 locations have been able to collect data, then see the real results of their monitoring activities. Find out more at http://mappingforchange.org.uk
AirCasting is an open-source, end-to-end solution for collecting, displaying, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone.
AirCasting is a platform for recording, mapping, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone. Each AirCasting session lets you capture real-world measurements, annotate the data to tell your story, and share it via the CrowdMap.
Find out more at http://aircasting.org/
The senseBox is a do-it-yourself kit for stationary and mobile sensor stations – a citizen science toolkit for anyone.
With the senseBox citizens and schools to environmental data on climate, air quality, traffic, noise and more measured and thus contribute to more accurate statements about local environmental phenomena.
Find out more at http://www.sensebox.de
A community-led air quality sensing network that gives people a way to participate in the conversation about air quality.
The Air Quality Egg is a sensor system designed to allow anyone to collect very high resolution readings of NO2 and CO concentrations outside of their home. These two gases are the most indicative elements related to urban air pollution that are sense-able by inexpensive, DIY sensors.
Find out more at http://airqualityegg.com
In cooperation with our partner in hackAIR CERTH, we co-organised a workshop that took place during the 3rd International Conference on Internet Science INSCI16 – Florence, 12-14 /9/2016.
More information on the event can be read here: http://www.hackair.eu/report-internet-and-social-media-for-environmental-monitoring/
Or download the publication with revised selected papers Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness.
ISEM 2016 aims at presenting the most recent works in the area of environmental monitoring based on web resources and social media with an emphasis on user generated content. The advancements in digital technologies and the high internet penetration have facilitated the sharing of environmental information, such as meteorological measurements and nature observation. Since the analysis of environmental information is critical both for human activities (e.g. agriculture) and for the sustainability of the planet (e.g. global warming), it is of great importance to develop techniques for the retrieval and aggregation of the environmental information that is available over the internet. Of particular interest is the exploitation of user generated content, which although in many cases can be of low quality, it can provide important information regarding areas that are not monitored by existing stations. In this context, ISEM 2016 focuses on analysis, retrieval and aggregation of environmental data from the internet and social media (including user generated content), as well as on personalised services and decision support environmental applications.
Research topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Stefanos Vrochidis (CERTH)
Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH)
Christodoulos Keratidis (DRAXIS)
Panagiota Syropoulou (DRAXIS)
European project creates tools for
citizens’ observatories on air pollution
Thessaloniki, January 2016. A consortium of six partners in five European countries has launched a project to develop an open technology toolkit for citizens’ observatories on air quality. The project hackAIR is supported through the EU programme on “Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation” until December 2018.
“Air pollution is the single environmental issue Europeans worry about the most, and many do not feel sufficiently informed about air quality issues in their country. Air pollution, and more specifically particulate matter, shortens people’s lifespan and contributes to serious illnesses such as heart disease, respiratory problems and cancer”, says Arne Fellermann, air quality campaigner for Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND).
At the same time, it remains difficult for citizens to assess where and when they are exposed to air pollution from particulate matter. Official sensors are often few and far between, coverage is poor outside cities, and their data is not always easily accessible. The hackAIR toolkit aims to complement official data with a number of community-driven data sources, including:
“This crowd-sourced air quality data will provide citizens with improved information about air pollution levels where they live. This will be useful for people who like to exercise outside, look after children or the elderly or suffer from respiratory problems themselves. It will also allow for a conversation in the local community about possible improvements in air quality”, says Evangelos Kosmidis, managing director of DRAXIS Environmental Technologies.
The combination of both official open and community-driven data will thus contribute towards both individual and collective awareness about air quality in Europe, hereby encouraging changes in behaviour towards air quality improvements. Within the project, effective engagement strategies for monitoring air pollution and encouraging behavioural change towards air quality will be explored.
In 2016, the project partners will conduct a set of co-creation workshops with user communities and other involved stakeholders to determine needs and expectations and inform and evaluate the software design. The full platform is expected to be available for selected cities in 2017.
The consortium consists of Draxis Environmental S.A., the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Friends of the Earth Germany, ON:SUBJECT and the SMIT Center for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The Democritus University of Thrace and the Technological Educational Institute of Athens contribute as third parties affiliated to Draxis Environmental S.A.
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Project coordinator: Dr. Machi Simeonidou, msimeonidou@draxis.gr
Media contact: Wiebke Herding, wiebke@onsubject.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 688363.
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