AIR: Area's Immediate Reading

AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use an air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Participants are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other AIR devices in the network.

An on-board GPS unit and digital compass, combined with a database of known pollution sources such as power plants and heavy industries, allow carriers to see their distance from polluters as well. The AIR devices regularly transmit data to a central database allowing for real time data visualization.

Relation to my thesis: I am interested in bottom-up citizen-collected spatial information to highlight features of the urban space