hackAIR: Towards Raising Awareness about Air Quality in Europe by Developing a Collective Online Platform
Creators
- Evangelos Kosmidis1
- Panagiota Syropoulou1
- Stavros Tekes1
- Philipp Schneider2
- Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis3
- Marina Riga3
- Polychronis Charitidis3
- Anastasia Moumtzidou3
- Symeon Papadopoulos3
- Stefanos Vrochidis3
- Ioannis Kompatsiaris3
- Ilias Stavrakas4
- George Hloupis4
- Andronikos Loukidis4
- Konstantinos Kourtidis5
- Aristeidis K. Georgoulias5
- Georgia Alexandri5
- 1. DRAXIS Environmental S.A.
- 2. NILU-Norwegian Institute for Air Research
- 3. Information Technologies Institute—Centre for Research & Technology Hellas
- 4. Technological Educational Institute of Athens
- 5. Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace
Description
Although air pollution is one of the most significant environmental factors posing a threat to human health worldwide, air quality data are scarce or not easily accessible in most European countries. The current work aims to develop a centralized air quality data hub that enables citizens to contribute to air quality monitoring. In this work, data from official air quality monitoring stations are combined with air pollution estimates from sky-depicting photos and from low-cost sensing devices that citizens build on their own so that citizens receive improved information about the quality of the air they breathe. Additionally, a data fusion algorithm merges air quality information from various sources to provide information in areas where no air quality measurements exist.
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