The TECO Envboard: A mobile sensor platform for accurate urban sensing — And more

Abstract

Participatory Urban Sensing scenarios have increasingly been studied in the past years. At the same time, society's concern about the effects of pollutants on people's personal health as well as on the environment grew. This, in conjunction with studies that helped to give a better understanding of those effects, lead to new and stricter regulations and standards set up by governments. Such standards define limits for concentrations which should or may not be exceeded. There are usually several of such maximum permissible values for different pollutants, and they may differ from country to country. As a result, we see the need for ways to take accurate, fine-grained and mobile measurements, e.g in order to identify hot spots or monitor people at risk. Standard fixed measuring methods are not suitable for such scenarios. This demo presents a generic platform for such measurements - the TECO Envboard.