Smart Cities, Smart Climate

Smart Cities, Smart Climate

Description
Projects
Hackpad (must be logged in)
  • Hashtag= #smartcities

    Background:

    We want to encourage the building of low cost sensor networks in cities, and make creative use of the data for urban research.

    Observing and understanding atmospheric processes and impacts in urban areas and how they will be affected by climate change is essential for sustainable and healthy city living. Observations from climate networks have provided the most important basis for the detection and attribution of the causes of climate change to date.

    Urban environments are becoming increasingly important and relevant to study since more of the world’s population now inhabit towns and cities and the part of the world’s surface covered by built-up environments is growing. Hence much more data and tools for analysing that data are required. 

    Traditionally, national or global networks have not instrumented urban areas, as these networks are designed to collect standardized, representative climatological measurements of the wider region for use in weather forecasting. Conventional meteorological monitoring stations in cities are difficult and costly to deploy and maintain. 

    The appropriate way to monitor urban environments is with a dense network of sensors making frequent measurements. With recent advances in sensor technology now make it possible to vastly improve our data collection and knowledge of urban environments.

    The Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory (BUCL) in the City of Birmingham, UK has recently created a network of over 200 sensors across the city to explore the impacts of urban heat on health, infrastructure and society.  A few other urban meteorological networks now exist and links to their websites are given.  

    Data from these networks will be used to explore the impacts of urban heat on health, infrastructure (including transportation and energy) and society, with additional applications for adaptation and mitigation (e.g. urban design - buildings, open spaces, green roofs; resilient infrastructure), remote sensing observations and modelling.

    The air temperature sensors used by BUCL are produced by Aginova Inc. who are based in the US. Due to their low-cost nature (<$100) and their ability to connect to existing networks, there is potential for a number of these sensors to be set-up with ease in other cities across the world for global comparisons.

    Challenge Description:

    Use existing data to explore and visualize connections between environmental measurements and other local datasets, for example health or traffic accidents. 

    Functional Specifications:

    Compare urban heat issues in Birmingham to those in other cities.

    The goal is to encourage the building of networks similar to the Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory in other cities and to make creative use of the data for urban environment research.

    Determine how the urban heat island magnitude in Birmingham compares as measured by low-cost, wireless air temperature sensors.

    Develop low-cost, wireless enabled, battery powered sensors for a range of variables (temperature, precipitation, wind, relative humidity, noise, pollution, vibration, etc.) as they relate to urban heat.

    The air temperature sensors are produced by Aginova Inc., who are based in the US. Due to their low-cost nature (<$100) and their ability to connect to existing networks, there is potential for a number of these sensors to be set up with ease in other cities across the world for global comparisons. Alternatively, similar low-cost air temperatures could be developed and compared with the Aginova sensor. Furthermore, there is also potential for the development of similar low-cost, wireless sensors to be developed for other variables using similar technology.

    Explore innovative applications for these sensors to benefit science and society.

    For temperature data, measurements must have a resolution of 0.1oC and should be collected every 15 seconds to produce 1-minute averages. For the development of sensors for other variables, specific specification would need to be agreed, or to comply with official guidelines (e.g. WMO guidelines). All data should be battery-powered and transmitted via near-real time via existing wireless networks.

    Producing visualizations illustrating the data findings.

    You are free to be creative in how you address the links between environmental data with other local datasets beyond the specifications given here.



    Datasets

    Create Project Solving this Challenge

    Need help?

    Check out the comments to chat with other users working on this challenge or email the challenge creator with any questions.

    comments powered by Disqus

  • The following projects are solving this challenge:

    • SmartT

      Exploring the effect of weather changes on climate, health and society at large. Visit Project

    • realPollution

      A real-time pollution data visualization for cyclists. Visit Project

    • Smart Cities, Smart Climate

      As a Team from Technomax Pvt Ltd, we are looking forward to help the people know the upcoming climate status, know the impact on the climate due to air pollution level. The project is the kick start for the ambitious open source project that we had vision and help globally. Visit Project

    • Tupã-BR-Balancer House Temperatures

      This system has a goal to detect high temperatures from cities through data weather collection by balancing the weather to make it enjoyable. Visit Project

    • Smart Cities visualization

      Visualization side of the Exeter Team, Taking the data from the sensors provided by the other team, & figuring out how best to display it. Visit Project

    • city sense

      The project is based on the Arduino platform. We are trying to play with two sensors and use the data for the display purpose. We used the data for the visual effects. Visit Project

    • Bright City, Smart Sensing

      Smart Cities are a new challenge for a new world model: buildings, streets, public green, citizens connected together sharing both information and energies (material and immaterial). But it is more difficult to apply this model to old cities. Living in Rome we have to reach the same bright goals ... Visit Project

    • http://spaceappschallenge.org/project/safety-nets-for-smart-cities-smart-climate-solutions-and-life-

      SAFETY NETs for Smart Cities, Smart Climate Change Solutions and LIFE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION BETTER UNDERSTANDING & COMMUNICATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES, INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT. To OBTAIN SOLUTIONS t... Visit Project

    • Smart Exeter, Smart Climate

      A sensor network for Exeter, UK and cool web visualisation! Project Purpose: To create an open, easily accessible, unified realtime data engine into which data from a multitude of low cost sensors can be transformed into a common format and visualised or consumed. Uses: Smart cities, sma... Visit Project

    • SmartClimate _ For a Green Birginham and a Cleaner World

      This solution is intended as an approach to study sociodemographic problems in corelation with weather conditions Visit Project

    • [email protected]

      El objetivo del proyecto es desarrollar una aplicación móvil,en la cual, los usuarios puedan reportar el estado del clima del lugar donde se encuentran. La aplicación ayudara a los ciudadanos a conocer el estado del clima de los diferentes distritos y provincias de Costa Rica. Con esto las person... Visit Project

    • Mobile Apps Co2 Emission

      Build mobile apps for measuring CO2 emissions when driving a transport. CO2 emission per mode of transport: 1. Walking 2.Bicycling 3.Train / tram / metro 4.Bus 5.Motor cycle 6.Car Small / Medium / Large 7.Air Applications built for smartphones: windows phone, blackberry 10, android, iph... Visit Project

    • Hi-RezClimate

      Observing is the first step for the understanding. BACK GROUND: Generally speaking, We need an understanding of the global environment. POURPOSE: In addition to evaluate the value of the global environment, and that many people understand the current situation, and to be able to share the re... Visit Project

    • ReNASAsense - SmartCity

      The purpose is an ambitious fully standalone multi-sensor device and a complete framework to upload and retrieve sensor data from anywhere in the world. Also open source examples will be created for both PC and Android OS and some 3D designs ready to be printed. The sensors we planned to use a... Visit Project

    • Smart Cities Unimagdalena

      We use datamining techniques for get clearly information organized. We work comparing Birgminham datasets with another cities from Colombia. Visit Project

    • NASA Greener Cities Project

      Our design seeks to compliment NASA satellite climate data with crowd-sourced micro-climate data; in effect, providing higher resolution information for monitoring the environment. Using a basic air quality and soil sensor, users can "plant" our sensor into their box gardens (very common in Swede... Visit Project

    • Weather Wireless Innovation Team

      In Panama we are trying to create awareness about Urban Climate Island. Our project aims to develop a sensor network using the Internet National Network of Panama, with the intention of measuring temperature and relative humidity in order to study the different micro-climates that occur in the... Visit Project

    • Weathercaching

      We aim to encourage public engagement with their local community and climate with the benefit of providing climate/perception/behaviour data for climate health and wellbeing research, urban planning and local community climate resilience. We hope to encourage people to explore the urban area thro... Visit Project

    • XSpacious

      Our Team ======== In the Leicester UK hub we sat down to brainstorm ideas for the Smart Cities app, as eight people who had never worked together before, and most of us had never even met until Space Apps Challenge 2013. Why XSpacious? ============= We were particularly inspired by tho... Visit Project

Loading...
×
Loading...
×