01007nas a2200181 4500008004100000245005700041210005700098260001300155300001400168520046300182100002300645700001900668700001900687700002100706700001600727700001700743856006500760 2017 eng d00aApplications for Environmental Sensing in EveryAware0 aApplications for Environmental Sensing in EveryAware bSpringer a135–1553 aThis chapter provides a technical description of the EveryAware applications for air quality and noise monitoring. Specifically, we introduce AirProbe, for measuring air quality, and WideNoise Plus for estimating environmental noise. We also include an overview on hardware components and smartphone-based measurement technology, and we present the according web backend, e.g., providing for real-time tracking, data storage, analysis and visualizations. 1 aAtzmueller, Martin1 aBecker, Martin1 aMolino, Andrea1 aMueller, Juergen1 aPeters, Jan1 aSirbu, Alina uhttp://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_702544nas a2200373 4500008004100000022001400041245008200055210006900137260000900206300001300215490000700228520142000235100001701655700001901672700002201691700002201713700001501735700002001750700002001770700001901790700002101809700002101830700001901851700002101870700001601891700002601907700002001933700002401953700001701977700001701994700002002011700002702031856011202058 2015 eng d a1932-620300aParticipatory Patterns in an International Air Quality Monitoring Initiative.0 aParticipatory Patterns in an International Air Quality Monitorin c2015 ae01367630 v103 a
The issue of sustainability is at the top of the political and societal agenda, being considered of extreme importance and urgency. Human individual action impacts the environment both locally (e.g., local air/water quality, noise disturbance) and globally (e.g., climate change, resource use). Urban environments represent a crucial example, with an increasing realization that the most effective way of producing a change is involving the citizens themselves in monitoring campaigns (a citizen science bottom-up approach). This is possible by developing novel technologies and IT infrastructures enabling large citizen participation. Here, in the wider framework of one of the first such projects, we show results from an international competition where citizens were involved in mobile air pollution monitoring using low cost sensing devices, combined with a web-based game to monitor perceived levels of pollution. Measures of shift in perceptions over the course of the campaign are provided, together with insights into participatory patterns emerging from this study. Interesting effects related to inertia and to direct involvement in measurement activities rather than indirect information exposure are also highlighted, indicating that direct involvement can enhance learning and environmental awareness. In the future, this could result in better adoption of policies towards decreasing pollution.
1 aSirbu, Alina1 aBecker, Martin1 aCaminiti, Saverio1 aDe Baets, Bernard1 aElen, Bart1 aFrancis, Louise1 aGravino, Pietro1 aHotho, Andreas1 aIngarra, Stefano1 aLoreto, Vittorio1 aMolino, Andrea1 aMueller, Juergen1 aPeters, Jan1 aRicchiuti, Ferdinando1 aSaracino, Fabio1 aServedio, Vito, D P1 aStumme, Gerd1 aTheunis, Jan1 aTria, Francesca1 aVan den Bossche, Joris uhttps://kdd.isti.cnr.it/publications/participatory-patterns-international-air-quality-monitoring-initiative