This week has seen Manchester bathed in unseasonal sunshine, and equally as rare, home to the Conservative Party, who’s Autumn conference is taking place in the city. As we begin testing on the Environmental Sensor network we are developing, the weather has been a boon. MDDA colleagues have also had to negotiate the police cordons around the conference, standing out in their high visibility jackets as they look at the locations for mentoring wifi access points and a range of environmental sensors.
In parallel, we’ve taken delivery of our first “wearable” sensor.Smaller than a smart phone, the City SensPod, developed by Sensaris a French based technology company, has several sensors built in and uses the phone network to send environmental data to the internet.Measuring Co2, temperature and humidity, the SensPod will give us a portable option as we look to develop the projects around the development of the sensor network – and gives us flexibility beyond our fixed location sensors.
Our only concern is that the instructions say to keep out moisture away from the sensors. Lovely as the weather has been this early Autumn, in Manchester, such a dry season rarely lasts for long. So if anyone can come up with a SensPod umbrella, we’ll be more than grateful!
