Sensing the Air We Breathe – the OpenSense Dataset

Onm-9: Pollution and Fertility

Air is our main contact with the environment in which wefind ourselves. Every day, we breathe in 15 kg of air; that’s more than our daily food intake. Air, in cities and confined environments where houses are really close together, consists of particles of different sizes charged of chemical pollutants. The finer particles will come into contact with the alveoli and will allow some pollutants g...

On Rendezvous in Mobile Sensing Networks

A rendezvous is a temporal and spatial vicinity of two sensors. In this paper, we investigate rendezvous in the context of mobile sensing systems. We use an air quality dataset obtained with the OpenSense monitoring network to explore rendezvous properties for carbon monoxide, ozone, temperature, and humidity processes. Temporal and spatial locality of a physical process impacts the number of r...

Easy Breathe: Health-Optimal Routing in Urban Areas Semester Thesis

Air pollution, especially particulate matter (PM), has very serious effects on human health. According to the World Health Organization, diseases caused by PM reduce the average live expectancy in Europe by 9 months. This is a significant number, especially considering that 80% of the European population lives in cities with levels of PM exceeding the levels considered save by the WHO Air Quali...

Keynote: OpenSense: Open sensor networks for air quality monitoring

Incentive Schemes for Community Sensing

Fig. 1. OpenSense air pollution sensors that could be used in community sensing. Top left: on top of a bus; bottom left: on top of a tram; top right: attached to a solar-powered weather station on a building; and bottom right: attached to a smartphone. Sensing is an important part of computational sustainability, where evidence are collected about important environmental phenomena that are not ...