Common Sense: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platforms to Support Community Action and Citizen Science
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The Common Sense project is developing mobile environmental sensing platforms to support grassroots community action. To this end, we are building a family of hardware and software components that can be used in a range of applications, as well as developing new communication paradigms that enable communities of nonexperts to gather and produce information that is “credible enough” for experts and policy-makers. The demonstration showcases one such platform, currently deployed on streetsweeping vehicles in a major U.S. city.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008