Diana Wildschut - Measure Your City
summary
A project builds a neighborhood-scale sensor network using low-cost DIY hardware to measure temperature, humidity, particulates, light, and power consumption and publishes a public live heatmap and air-quality/flowering time series. Volunteers are trained in soldering and data skills, about 100 sensors have been deployed over two years using open-source hardware and software, run on a roughly €70,000 budget; many devices and community processes proved usable though ensuring data quality remains challenging.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:14Citizen science basics
- 6:01Community workshops
- 8:54Hardware and software
- 12:07Live data and students
- 14:35Sustainability and ownership
- 16:43Funding and future plans
- 18:34Q&A
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