Contact
CNR DISBA
Alessandro Zaldei
National Research Council
Istituto di Biometeorologia
Via Caproni 8
50145 Firenze
Phone +39 055 3033711
e-mail : [email protected]
Working group
Laura Bonora
Tiziana De Filippis
Sara Di Lonardo
Teodoro Georgiadis
Beniamino Gioli
Giovanni Gualtieri
Giuseppe Mario Lanini
Francesca Martelli
Luciano Massetti
Alessandro Matese
Francesco Miglietta
Marco Moriondo
Marianna Nardino
Laura Pellegrino
Leandro Rocchi
Graziella Rossini
Chiara Screti
Giacomo Tagliaferri
Piero Toscano
Carolina Vagnoli
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The Sensor
Web Bike
The SensorWebBike is a web-based information service
framework designed to support a participative sensing
approach for urban environmental monitoring. Bikers
become voluntary citizens-sensors able to measure
environmental parameters.
The SensorBike is a mobile platform developed with the
new “Arduino” open source technology to monitor air
quality in cities, integrating the existing monitoring
networks with the active involvement of citizens.
The SensorBikes, equipped with Arduino electronics
platform and low-cost sensors, are able to collect
environmental data : CO2, Noise, Humidity and
Temperature. More constrains are related to integrate low
cost, small and effective environmental sensors for CO, O3
and PM10 measurements.
Other sensors, like a globethermometer to calculate the
index of thermal comfort, are under development
Mobile platform installed on bike
Through GPRS modem, the sensor installed on the bike,
transmits geolocated data on environment and air quality
status to the server wich is connected to the applications
and web server. Real time observations can be visualized
in a web browser .
The SensoWebBike prototype has been tested in the city
of Florence, and is online at:
http://149.139.16.20/sensorwebhub/
where the geolocated measures, bike tracks and usergenerated meta-data are visualized on a GIS mashup and
shared automatically, contributing to build a
comprehensive and constantly updated spatial
representation of air quality pattern of the whole urban
area.
Mobile platform installed on electric bike : this prototype has
been developed in joint with Pedego Italia
SensorWebBike opens environmental monitoring systems
and data to the public, “augmenting” urban social
interactions so to increase citizens’ awareness on air
quality issues, creating the “intelligence data spots” of
cities.