Agenda

Welcome Remarks

Christine Perey and JP de Vooght

Road traffic calculation with mobile bulk location for mobility management. Use of M2M and Lessons Learned.

Olivier Thyes

Today, Swisscom uses anonymous mobile location data for estimating road traffic load in real-time. This approach is successfully used by TomTom in their connected navigation devices. The data collected can also be used for other applications, including urban planning. This talk will present the technical solution implemented by Swisscom and partners, and suggest potential uses of anonymous location data in various domains.

Precise location-dependent and real-time air pollution monitoring using city buses.

Andrea Ridolfi

Mobile wireless sensor networks and publishing of sensor data on the Internet bear the potential to substantially increase public awareness and involvement in environmental sustainability.
The OpenSense project aims at combining such technologies to provide precise location-dependent and real-time air quality information to a wide public: By mounting low cost and miniaturized pollution monitoring station on city busses, it is possible to "scan" the air quality in selected critical areas of a city, thus providing a detailed pollution map.
The challenges addressed by the Opensense project are both technological and scientific. The outcomes of such a mobile sensing approach is of great interest to environmental engineers, for locating pollution sources, municipalities, for creating incentives to reduce environmental footprints, to public health studies, as well as to citizens, for advising on outdoor activities and assessment of long-term exposure.

Challenges and opportunities for participatory sensing. Increased importance to open sensor networks to citizens and provide real time access to data on mobile phones, share pervasive information using social networks.

Michael Setton

Collecting data from our environment and making it visible, understanding what it means and proposing solutions to every day issues are the main objective of Sensaris clients. With its end-to-end solution based around mobile-centric Sensepods, people can use mobile or web applications to read data, geolocate it, mix it with augmented reality or see its evolution and uncover trending patterns over time. An example of platform integration will be given based on the Greenhaviour Project in 2010 during which IBM validated not only measurements in realistic tough conditions but more importantly showed the value of sharing such data using social networking.
Customers are quickly building a global network because of the pervasiveness and performance of the Bluetooth technology for mobile phones and gateways. The use of these environmental monitoring sensors is at the moment for air quality, noise or radiation monitoring and plans to include water quality to tackle new challenges associated with resource shortages and climate change.

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Environmental sensing: What’s in it for the citizens? Focus on the outcome of participatory design exercise, as organized in conjunction with the OpenSense project.

Jan Blom

Both people-centric and environmental sensing are on the increase. In the smart city scenarios, plenty of B2B angles can be seen as well. However, relatively little work has been done on validating smart city scenarios from the point of view citizens. This presentation focuses on the outcome of participatory design exercise, as organized in conjunction with the OpenSense project.
Six families living in a European capital used a diary to record their observations about air quality variation. Based on the OpenSense technological framework, the families were also asked to ideate air quality services that would provide a fit to their own lives. The presentation describes the design drivers resulting from the empirical work with the families. Conclusions will be drawn as to the potential of wireless sensor networks contributing to the wellbeing of urban dwellers.

Water quantity and quality measurement and management for municipalities and regional customers use remote sensors to alert systems operators about the status of water conditions.

Eric Picker

Public and private water providers must monitor water conditions in order to assess the aquifer levels as well as the quality of the resource entering and leaving the distribution systems. For example, turbidity and chlorine levels of incoming water are important for guaranteeing public health. In this talk we will examine two sophisticated remote water quality sensing and management projects implemented for regional water management service providers. These case studies will illustrate how different projects' requirements drive the hardware and software we choose to deploy and the management approach chosen by operators.

We will discuss how remote monitoring systems are deployed currently (without the Internet of Things, strictly speaking) and suggest some directions for future exploration and development.