Monitoring air quality from the crowd to the cloud
HOW IT WORKS
Smile is a participatory science project which relies on the collection of pollution data in urban areas.
Pollution readings are carried out by low-cost self-calibrating sensors which will be distributed to volunteer users spread over a given area. All the results obtained from the movement of users will be used to develop pollution maps at street-scale which will reflect the types and concentrations of pollutants present.
PROJECT LEADERS
PASCAL TARANTO
PHILOSOPHER
Director of a Mixed Research Unit at CGGG,
UMR 7304 (CNRS, AMU)
HASSEN AZIZA
PhD IN MICROELECTRONICS
Head of the Memory team (MEM) at IM2NP,
UMR 7334 IM2NP (CNRS, AMU)
DEPLOYMENT TIMELINE
• A route-to-market will be planned to provide European cities with the Smile solution. A business model will be established to provide European cities with a complete solution tailored to their specific needs:
5 European municipalities will be targeted including the metropolitan city of Milan
• Deployment of the SMILE solution in a pilot city:
Marseille City and the “Métropole” Aix-Marseille Provence
LATEST NEWS
“We have to move fast, before it is too late.”
Helsinki Manifesto (2006)
