Air Quality Monitoring System/ Municipality Stari Grad
Šifra prijedloga: Hrana-nije-Otpad-2019-07-20
We want to contribute to reduction of pollution by educating people, collecting reliable and relevant data on the sources of pollution and making it publicly available for community and scientific use
The main goal of this project is to contribute to the solution of air pollution in Sarajevo, by setting up diagnostics system and extracting data.
Objective 1: To raise awareness about air pollution and its health hazards.
Objective 2: To collect data on air pollution levels, its sources and making it publicly available.
Objective 3: To propose innovative solutions to protect yourself and reduce air pollution.
This project will develop solutions using hardware and software, which will pinpoint the exact sources of pollution with live-sensor data, measuring data in several locations throughout the municipality of Stari Grad. Data will be collected, analyzed, stored and publicly available to everyone and displayed on mobile phones, a website, embeddable widgets and large-screen displays, with the goal of raising awareness and bringing knowladge to the local community and kickstart the process of identifying solutions to this problem. All data will be available to anyone with an internet connection, with no restrictions.
From the start, any solutions developed will be open-source, i.e. freely available for use by many others worldwide with similar problems and goals. These efforts will be spreadheaded by the young people of Sarajevo, who through the process, will learn how to solve these problems themselves, creating a critical mass of young thinkers and innovators who will contribute to community development in a sustainable and long-term manner.
In sum, we aimed at collecting high quality reliable data, raising awareness in communities through modern technology and media by sharing all data in real-time. The app provides you with comprehensive data and graph trends to give you a deeper understanding of your surroundings, air pollution patterns, and insights into the source of poor air quality as it happens.
The technical solution consists of 3 main components:
1.Outdoor hardware sensors that collect environmental data. Precisely: air temperature, air humidity, air pressure, altitude, PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 data.
Sensors used today in modern cities are measuring more data points with better quality, and are smaller, portable, easier to maintain and friendlier to use. The muasurement data from the sensors will be fed into a shared and public open database and will serve as the basis for creating smart tech solutions towards cleaner air in Sarajevo. The latest technology to measure the smallest, most dangerous PM2.5 and PM1 particles will be applied. Smart sensor kits featuring PM sensors will be placed in 3 public locations ( Sarajevo City Hall, Sarajevo Cable Car - lower station and Municipality Stari Grad building) and 10+ locations of private houses and appartments located at critical pollution points in the municipality Stari Grad. We will be securcing volunteers to host the sensors, teach them all they need to know about pollution, electronics, programming and industrial design and they will build their own air pollution devices in a single day.
2. Cloud software that processes, stores and analyzes live sensors data.
Software will store, process and analyze environmental sensor data in real time.
3. Visualization and management software that presents all data on the web, mobile apps and big screens.
To raise awareness about the pollution levels, information about the main causes of pollution needs to be widely disseminated. All data will be available to anyone with an internet connection, with no restrictions. You could see it on the web, mobile app, notification lamps, your computer, it could be spoken to you by home automation devices, displayed on the small touch screen attached to your walls, or you could build your own creative solution.
In addition, software and hardware designed and developed during this project is created in such a way as to serve as a basis for tackling the same issue in many other cities with the same problem.