Live Geography -- Embedded Sensing for Standarised Urban Environmental Monitoring
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Author(s)
Ratti, Carlo
Resch, Bernd
Mittlboeck, Manfred
Girardin, Fabien
Britter, Rex E
Date Issued
January 2009
Journal
International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements
Publisher
International Academy, Research and Industry Association
Citation
Ratti, Carlo et al. "Live Geography -- Embedded Sensing for Standarised Urban Environmental Monitoring. "International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, 2.2/3 2009, p.156-167. © 2009 IARIA.
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Abstract
Environmental monitoring faces a variety of
complex technical and socio-political challenges, particularly in
the urban context. Data sources may be available, but mostly
not combinable because of lacking interoperability and
deficient coordination due to monolithic and closed data
infrastructures. In this work we present the Live Geography
approach that seeks to tackle these challenges with an open
sensing infrastructure for monitoring applications. Our system
makes extensive use of open (geospatial) standards throughout
the entire process chain – from sensor data integration to
analysis, Complex Event Processing (CEP), alerting, and
finally visualisation. We discuss the implemented modules as
well as the overall created infrastructure as a whole. Finally,
we show how the methodology can influence the city and its
inhabitants by „making the abstract real“, in other words how
pervasive environmental monitoring systems can change urban
social interactions, and which issues are related to establishing
such systems.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory
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