[Geowanking] sensor MESH network in Cambridge?

[Brady Forrest]

I do.

Talking with him about Where 2.0. I'll introduce the two of you.

   brady


On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:

> Hi Annalee
>
> Have any contact with them? sounds like an awesome thing to crack  
> open with GeoRSS.
>
> Reminds me of ObsRSS was a GeoRSS inspired effort to devise a RSS  
> friendly encoding of sensor data, a kinda lightweight SensorML.
> http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/bin/view/Main/ObsRSS
>
> -Mikel
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Annalee Newitz <annalee at techsploitation.com>
> To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:46:19 PM
> Subject: [Geowanking] sensor MESH network in Cambridge?
>
> I just read that the NSF has given Harvard a grant to set up a MESH
> network of 100 air quality sensors around the Cambridge, MA area. It's
> called CitySense. According to the Boston Globe:
>
> "Initially the sensors will grab weather data like temperature,
> rainfall and wind speeds, but eventually the project designers plan to
> integrate such things as pollution detectors and traffic monitors."
>
> The really cool part is that the CitySense data will be open to the  
> public -- and members of the public will also be able to use the  
> network to stage their own experiments. I immediately thought this  
> would be a great project for playing around with GeoRSS feeds --  
> people could get realtime data about air quality in Cambridge.  
> Other ideas about how to turn CitySense into a map mashup?
>
> Annalee
>
>
>
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