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Applications for Environmental Sensing in EveryAware

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Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness

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Abstract

This chapter provides a technical description of the EveryAware applications for air quality and noise monitoring. Specifically, we introduce AirProbe, for measuring air quality, and WideNoise Plus for estimating environmental noise. We also include an overview on hardware components and smartphone-based measurement technology, and we present the according web backend, e.g., providing for real-time tracking, data storage, analysis and visualizations.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The AirProbe application is freely available for the Android platform and can be installed from Google PlayStore.

  2. 2.

    http://openstreetmap.org/

  3. 3.

    http://noisetube.net/

  4. 4.

    http://aircasting.org/

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Kassel, Research Center for Information System Design, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, 34121, Kassel, Germany

    Martin Atzmueller & Juergen Mueller

  2. L3S Research Center, Appelstraße 9A, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Martin Becker & Juergen Mueller

  3. CSP, Turin, Italy

    Andrea Molino

  4. VITO, Mol, Belgium

    Jan Peters

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alina Sîrbu

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  1. Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Vittorio Loreto

  2. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Muki Haklay

  3. Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg , Würzburg, Germany

    Andreas Hotho

  4. Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Vito D.P. Servedio

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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  6. VITO—Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium

    Jan Theunis

  7. Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Torino, Italy

    Francesca Tria

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Atzmueller, M., Becker, M., Molino, A., Mueller, J., Peters, J., Sîrbu, A. (2017). Applications for Environmental Sensing in EveryAware. In: Loreto, V., et al. Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_7

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