Instrumented, Interconnected and intelligent: a smart city in the making

摘要

Today's city councils face many challenges requiring effective monitoring. Atmospheric pollution - whether in the form of gases, such as CO_2 and NO_2 or dust - is a threat to the health of urban dwellers by causing respiratory diseases. Sensor boards being able to monitor gas, radiation, paniculate matter and vibrational data could be integrated into wireless networks to build a wide range of services for quake and gas monitoring or even more localized applications such as structural health monitoring on buildings. Sensors and networks have so far addressed these within different standards and different vertical applications. A uniform modular approach run on open source software would allow city councils to enable better infrastructure cost effectively.