METHODOLOGY

SMILE has three major headings that sustain the overall concept, or philosophy, of the project:

1.

Address the major problem of atmospheric pollution in urban environment through the development of a groundbreaking solution (“on-the-fly” self-calibration) that provides accurate pollution data for the citizen and stakeholders at a very small, engaging, scale (people are more sensitive in the first place to what concerns themselves and their relatives).

2.

Encapsulate this technology in a high-end citizen platform/interface (using IDT) that allows every stakeholder to see pollution maps and AI simulations, learn and discuss solutions with academics, decision-makers, and observe how and how fast a committed and transparent relation to sound knowledge, driven by exchange and activism, can modify people’s perceptions and increase behavioral changes.

3.

Create new kinds of nudges, e-influence, youth involvement and community management, by materializing the change of habits through the creation of a green crypto currency that would link citizen engagement and companies interests.

The “SMILE methodology challenge” thus consists in carefully articulating these three distinct parts to achieve the empowering of citizens purpose of the Call:

  • A sustainable hardware production of air pollution sensors data to feed...

  • ...the integration of a CPS for each city, to leverage...

  • ...a social sciences and social engineering breakthrough that uses the data produced and processed by the previous parts, that will engage communities by enhancing both science-driven motives (participative science) and interest or emotion-driven behavior, with incentive blockchain-based innovative actions.

  • Apart from citizen as primary target, the other stakeholders are local public bodies (to which SMILE will provide white papers and reports for policy-making aid), academics (social data, experiences results, RI developments) economic actors (social data, partnership for local companies to use our crypto currency as a competitive edge and nudge them into green practices).