Sensing Platform
Air quality, heat, noise. Those are the three environmental variables that affect the well-being of people living in cities the most. Yet, those are also hyperlocal, fast-paced changing phenomena hard to snapshot.
The Sensing Stockholm project aims at bringing environmental data to the doorstep of citizens: By collecting, analyzing and visualizing hyperlocal environmental data to study a number of urban phenomena (e.g. air quality, road quality, and thermal leaks from buildings) we aim at delivering actionable insights for the public good.
![city scanner mounted on a car](/polopoly_fs/1.1153710.1647615498!/image/Sensing-Platform-1024x683.jpg)
Instead of relying on fixed sensors, the projects make use of scheduled (e.g. buses, trash trucks) and non-scheduled (e.g. taxis) vehicles that are equipped with custom-designed, solar-powered sensing nodes. Building an opportunistic sensing platform that can be deployed and configured on-demand we provide cities with denser spatiotemporal data about the urban environment, enabling decision-making and fostering public engagement on environmental issues.
Publications
- Anjomshoaa, A., Duarte, F., Rennings, D., Matarazzo, T., deSouza, P., Ratti, C. (2018). City Scanner: Building and Scheduling a Mobile Sensing Platform for Smart City Services. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Anjomshoaa, A., Mora, S., Schmitt, P., Ratti, C. (2018). Challenges of drive-by IoT sensing for smart cities: City Scanner case study. Proceedings of the The 7th International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications at ACM Ubiquitous Computing Conference, 2018
- Mora, S., Anjomshoaa, A., Benson, T., Duarte, F., Ratti, C. (2019). Towards Large-scale Drive-by Sensing with Multi-purpose City. IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things. 2019 // Best Paper Award