CityFeel - micro climate monitoring for climate mitigation and urban design

Abstract

While a significant part of the population is concentrated in urban areas, the influence of cityscape parameters on human heat stress remain poorly understood. Yet we agree to develop urban spaces (street, square, district ...) in a way to provide best possible quality of life. In order to do so, quantitative and qualitative references are required. To fill this gap the HES-SO† - hepia/leea‡ has developed an innovative portable monitoring system that can be easily deployed in various outdoor and indoor environments. The monitoring equipment is embedded into a backpack that is carried during ‘climatic urban walks’ that can be reproduced at different times of the day or seasons so to yield a detailed and dynamic description of the climatic context of a portion of the city from the pedestrian point of view.