dance monitoring final
TRANSCRIPT
Emerging Technology:
Matthew Dance
Open Data, AQ Monitoring, and Health Notifications
Presentation Outline
• Open data, a worldwide phenomena– Definition and scope
• Approaches to visualizing AQ data– Crowdsouring?
• Emerging AQ sensor technologies• Applications
– Virtual work bench– Health notifications
Open Data
Open Data Defined
• Data that is:– Freely available– With no restrictions– That can be used, reused and distributed
• 200+ local, regional and national portals exist.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
How does open data work?
Consumers of the‘open data’ product.
ResearchersDevelopers
GovernmentCommunities
Open Data
Open Data Example
From: data.edmonton.ca
Air Quality Mapping
From: londonair.org.uk
From: eyeonearth.org
Emerging Monitoring Technology
Emerging AQ Monitors(in a perfect world)
• Inexpensive • Easily connects to the internet to:
– Provide real time data feeds• The data is open
– Visualized in meaningful ways– Apps are built via and API
• Tool to engage and build community• Empowerment / Transparency / Engagement
Three technologies:– Air Quality Egg
– Sensaris– Cairpol Sensor
Air Quality Egg
• API with open data• Mashups!
• Open hardware (3D printing)• Open software
Air Quality Egg
Air Quality Egg Map
MIT’s Copenhagen Wheel: A Sensaris implementation
Cairpol Sensor
• Wireless transmission of data
• Web-based mapping interface
BUT• More expensive• Less user friendly
Cairpol Sensor
Sensor Measurements
Sensor AQ Egg Cairpol
Parameters NO2 (0.05 – 5 ppm ) NO2 (0 – 1000 ppb)
Cost 155 USD 650 USD
Internet Yes Potentially
Power Plug-in Battery, plug-in, solar
GPS No No
Unknowns Tolerance for cold, sensor sensitivity, sensor drift, ease of deployment / use
Challenges
• Purchasing – Cairpol - 66 emails and 2 Skype calls to France…– AQEgg was JUST shipped…it was promised in
August• Deployment and testing of this new tech• Defining tech limitations and strengths• Not getting TOO ENTHUSIASTIC about
untried technology• Others, not yet known.
For instance…
Trends
• Smaller• Cheaper• Faster• More sensitive• Better visualization (AR anyone?)
• Community building and citizen involvement
Emerging Platforms
Core Platform - InputsAir Quality
Pollution
GIS / Mapping
CartoDBPostGIS,
OpenLayers
Weather
GoogleBING
Gov’tAQHI
Website
Gov’t AQMRSS/XML
Real-timeSensors
National Pollution Release Inventory
Traffic
MunicipalData???
Toxicity
TEPData
Core Platform - Outputs
• Web-based dispersion model to power:– Researcher workbench: tests
epidemiological questions / data– Asthma Journal: clinical and patient tool that
tracks asthma in the context of exposure– Health notifications: based on smartphone
GPS, delivers location based warnings / advice
Next Steps
• Platform• Technology• Community
Partners
Alberta Capital Airshed
Microsoft
University of Alberta Children's Environmental Health Group
Drs. Alvaro Osornio and Irena Buka
