1. Citizens’ Observatory Community
Development of
Sensor-Based
Citizens’ Observatory Community
for Improving Quality of Life in Cities
EU FP7-ENV-2012 Grant agreement nº:

2. Outline
Motivation
Scope (EIs)
Technical aspects
Platform and user end

3. How can we engage with the public?
Motivation
Urban life quality components:
Outdoor air quality, acoustic and thermal comfort
Indoor air quality
Legislation and knowledge (mostly) in place
To attain «good» air quality requires collaboration from the public
How can we engage with the public?

4. Motivation: Inhaled dose for family members

5. Motivation Tell me, and I’ll forget Show me, and I may remember
Involve me, and I’ll understand
Chinese proverb

6. Scientific context and objectives
To develop Citizens’ Observatories to empower citizens to
Contribute to and participate in environmental governance
Support and influence community and policy priorities and associated decision making
Contribute to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

7. Citizens’ observatories are
Communities that share
technological solutions,
information products and services and
community participatory methods
Complement established environmental data and information systems, improve local environmental decision making.

8. CITI-SENSE Platform: use cases

9. Scope: Empowerment InitiativesEI
Urban Quality EI
School Environment EI
Public Spaces

10. Urban Quality EI Aims Users Physical Sensors Social Sensors
Measurements
Improving quality of life in cities
Identifying indicators
Evaluating sensors
Facilitating stakeholder interaction
Citizens
Activists
Sports
Health compromised
Authorities
Low-cost sensors
Static sensors
Mobile sensors
Volunteer Information
Pollution
Meteorology
Noise
Health parameters
Biomarkers
UV exposure

11. Was this recommendation useful?
Urban Quality EI
Quick route
Clean route
Feedback:
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12. Urban quality EI
Traffic station
Urban background station

13. School Environment EI
Shows real-time, school day and historical values
Web, mobile devices
Customised for CITI-SENSE pilot
Data from devices and from automated stations
Visualisation using third-party widgets
Highly customisable to suit use-case or specific requirements
This poster summarizes the indoor environment pilot that was performed in Belgrade. The aim was to learn how to work together, what are the important issues for the school, and how to share relevant information between the research team and the school - administration, teachers, students, parents and maintenance personnel.
Temperature, Humidity, Pressure
CO2, CO, NO2, NO, O3, SO2

14. Public Spaces EI What for? Where? Who is involved?
Design of public places
Lead by the urban planners of the municipality
Supported by citizens
Where?
Four places in town
Who is involved?
Citizens > 50 people per location
Municipality
What is to be measured/evaluated?
Thermal comfort
Acoustic comfort
UV radiation
Urban landscape
General satisfaction

15. Public Spaces: Acoustic Comfort
Acoustic Service
Public Spaces
APP EI
CitiSense
ESEI Service
Questionnaire
Comfort
Perception

16. CITI-SENSE Test Cities
Nine cities:
Barcelona
Belgrade
Edinburgh
Haifa
Ljubljana
Oslo
Ostrava
Vienna
Vitoria
The cities gather sensor-enabled data on outdoor urban spaces and indoor school environments.
Within the CitiSense project nine different cities have been gathering sensor-enabled data on outdoor urban spaces and indoor school environments.
They have done a great job concerning citizen empowerment and actually creating Citizens Observatories.

17. CITI-SENSE Implementation

18. CITI-SENSE technical aspects
CITI-SENSE creates a distributed data collection network using innovative static, portable and personal devices (low-cost reliable micro sensor packs) that communicate with data repositories through mobile phones or other devices
CITI-SENSE creates a distributed data collection network using innovative static, portable and personal devices that communicate with data repositories through mobile phones or other devices.
This project also incorporates the development of participatory methods, data management strategies and applications to facilitate the exploitation of data and information for policy and for the society.

19. CITI-SENSE People Aspects
CITI-SENSE creates a distributed data collection network using innovative static, portable and personal devices that communicate with data repositories through mobile phones or other devices.
This project also incorporates the development of participatory methods, data management strategies and applications to facilitate the exploitation of data and information for policy and for the society.

20. Information flows Input Processing Output
Air Quality Radon (resp. q.) UV Thermal comfort Acoustic comfort User perception Photo/video Accelerometry
Collecting
Model transformation
Data fusion
Semantic Annotation
WFS
SOS
REST
GML
JSON
XML
KLM
RDF
GEORss/XML
Models
Phone apps
Web Portals
GEOSS

21. Platform components SensApp Linked Data Platform Platform Spatial and
Environmental
Data Services
Platform
(SEDS)
Sensor Registration Service
Sensor Data Ingest Service
Data Storage and Processing Service
Data Publication Service

22. CITI-SENSE platform data flow

23. Relation to GEOSS architecture

24. Citizens Observatories Web Portal

25. Visualisations

26. Creating maps Example of a spatial proxy for data fusion:
Annual average PM10 concentration over Oslo derived from output from the EPISODE dispersion model

27. Timeline
The project started in October 2012 (Month 1). Several evaluation timepoints are built in, in order to ensure that the project is on track and delivers according to the aims, and agreed upon outcomes. Each evaluation and assessment timepoint is preceded by an evaluation period. Three main implementation periods are
- E2EP (end-to-end pilot) that tests linking of selected components of the project (e.g., between sensor units and the central information system, or between the information system and the user mobile phones)
- pilot implementation where the whole system from own data collection to the user information interface and engagement is tested using limited number of monitoring devices and employing limited number of volunteers
- full deployment where all cities will be able to use the available technologies and compare results.

28. Challenges Sensor devices Complexity of the infrastructure
Performance and Availability
Calibration of measurements
Complexity of the infrastructure
How to achieve empowerment

29. Our goal:
To create infrastructure and to demonstrate feasibility of sustainable Citizen’s Observatories related to urban quality

30. CITI-SENSE partners

31. Acknowledgements Johanna Robinson David Kocman Nuria Castell
The slides were provided by the CITI-SENSE team,
with the main contributions (photos and graphics):
Johanna Robinson
David Kocman
Nuria Castell
Philipp Schneider
William Lahoz
Hai-Ying Liu
Arne J. Berre
Mirjam Fredriksen
Andrei Tamilin
David Broday
Milena Jovasevic-Stojanovic
Boris and Maja Pokric
Tom Cole-Hunter
Elena Turco
Britt Ann Høiskar
Leonardo Santiago
Hans Keune
Wim Verheyden
Mike Kobernus
Itziar Aspuru
Juan Angel Acero Alejandro
Finn Bjørklid

32. CITI-SENSE CO’s central web portal: http://co.citi-sense.eu
Common CO project’s web site:
LinkedIn: Citizens-observatories
Facebook:
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CITI-SENSE web site: