Real-Time Geo-awareness – Sensor Data Integration for Environmental Monitoring in the City

A paper by senseable’s colleague Bernd Resch has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services for his paper:

Resch, B., Mittlboeck, M., Girardin, F., and Britter, R. (2009). Real-time geo-awareness – sensor data integration for environmental monitoring in the city. In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems Web Services. Cancun, Mexico.

Bernd has been pursuing the urban sensor data interoperability holly grail, building methods to integrate heterogeneous data sources that both lack of interoperable interfaces and have deficient coordination due to monolithic and closed data infrastructures. He has been developing the kind “Sensor Data Integration” system based on open sensing infrastructure making extensive use of open (geospatial) standards.

Congrats Bernd!

Relation to my thesis: I humbly contributed to a section on the potential implications of such a system on raising people environmental awareness.