The Smart Environments tracking pilot will involve the further development and deployment of prototypes to enable citizens to collect environmental data about their city through the use of wearable technologies, passive sensors (e.g. on bicycles and cars), interactive sensors on streets, buildings and in green spaces and through other sensing devices.
One example prototype has already been developed by the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (see: http://ciid.dk/) called ATMO that enables cyclists to attach a wearable ‘glove’ that will collect environmental data throughout the day and report the data back when the glove is ‘docked’ to a reporting station:
http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/atmo-wearable-that-collects).
This pilot project will deploy a further prototype to exploit the ATMO concept for use by citizens in Manchester, prior to developing this further in partnership with the other city test-beds. The data collected by the system will be open. The Open Data Manchester group
(see: http://opendatamanchester.wordpress.com/) will be involved to process raw data on the cities behalf (thereby reducing costs) and presenting that data using public-facing websites.