SmartAQnet
April 18th, 2017 | Published in Research
Air quality and the associated subjective and health-related quality of life are among the important topics of our time. However, it is very difficult for many cities to take measures that to accommodate today’s needs concerning e.g. mobility, housing and work, because a consistent data base with fine-granular data and information on causal chains is missing. This has the potential to change, as today, both large-scale basic data as well as new promising measuring approaches are becoming available.
Project “SmartAQnet” is based on a pragmatic, data driven approach, which for the first time combines existing data sets with a networked mobile measurement strategy. By connecting open data, such as weather data or development plans, remote sensing of influencing factors, and new mobile measurement approaches, such as participatory with ultra-low sensor technology, “scientific scouts” and demand-oriented measurements by light weight UAVs, a novel measuring and analysis concept is created within the model region of Augsburg. In addition to novel analytics, a prototypical technology stack is planned which, through modern analytics methods and Big Data and IoT technologies, enables application in a scalable way.
SmartAQnet is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI): www.mfund.de
Project Website
www.smartaq.net
Open Data / API
…coming soon
Further Information
- LookKIT article about the project (German with English Summary)
- KIT press release on project start
- Related Article by the Stuttgarter Nachrichten (German)
- Related Article by the Badische Zeitung (German)
- Official project description on the mfund website
Start/End
- 04/2017 – 2020 (running)
Partners
- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IMK-IFU)
- German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU)
- Institut of Geography, University of Augsburg
- GRIMM Aerosol Technik GmbH & Co. KG
- Aerosol Akademie e.V.
- Umweltamt, Stadt Augsburg
Research topics
- Air Quality
- Environmental Sensing
- Big Data Analytics
- Mobile Computing
- Modeling
Contact
- Till Riedel (email: riedel(at)teco.edu)
- Matthias Budde (email: budde(at)teco.edu)
Selected Publications
(2018) Challenges in Capturing and Analyzing High Resolution Urban Air Quality Data, International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp'18), Adjunct Proceedings, doi:10.1145/3267305.3274762
(2018) Automated Quality Assessment of (Citizen) Weather Stations, GI_Forum, pdf, doi:10.1553/giscience2018_01_s65
(2018) SmartAQnet – Neuer smarter Weg zur räumlichen Erfassung von Feinstaub, AGIT – Journal für Angewandte Geoinformatik 4, pdf
(2018) Project SmartAQnet: Combining Existing Datasets and a Mobile Measurement Strategy into a Smart Urban Air Quality Network, Scientific Research Abstracts 8 (DUST 2018), p. 12, pdf
(2018) Suitability of the Low-Cost SDS011 Particle Sensor for Urban PM-Monitoring, Scientific Research Abstracts 8 (DUST 2018), p. 11, pdf
(2017) SmartAQnet: Remote and In-Situ Sensing of Urban Air Quality, Proc. SPIE 10424, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXII, 104240C, pdf, doi:10.1117/12.2282698
(2017) Participatory Sensing or Participatory Nonsense? — Mitigating the Effect of Human Error on Data Quality in Citizen Science, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 1(3), pdf, doi:10.1145/3131900