mk smart gadgets and fieldwork

MK:Smart Project

“Internet of Green Things”

Citizen Science and Sensing Technologies

Will Woods

Engagement

Why is the engagement important or desirable?

Who is being engaged?

What are they being engaged with?

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Why engage?

• “The correct name of an organism is the quantum of biodiversity knowledge.”

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Who is being engaged?

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• Can digital engage people with their environment?

• Can sensors engage people

with digital?

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Research Questions

• Value of sensor technology for STEM public engagement

• Location of “vagrant” devices

• Sensor fusion/collaboration of low cost devices

• Traffic, load and QoS in M2M networks

Activities?

• Monitoring health of horse-chestnut trees

• Grass cutting regimes and urban wildlife

• Ecosystems services of trees in urban areas (temperature/air pollution)

• Watercourses and floodplains (impact)

• Smarter gardening

• Allergy alleviation

Links: www.ispotnature.org

www.nquire.info

www.treezilla.org

Email: will.woods@open.ac.uk

Twitter: @willwoods