ACTUAL AIR

AMBITIONS/BOSTON

Asthma rate 1.12.6 2.64.1 4.15.7 5.77.2 7.28.7

North Dorchester Jamaica Plain Roxbury

South Dorchester

2 Miles

ATTEMPTS AT CITIZEN BASED DATA COLLECTION HAVE BEEN A COMPLETE DISASTER.

DR. GEORGE ALLEN INTERVIEW 10.05.10 MEMBER OF AIRBEAT TEAM

MONITORING STATIONS ARENT PLACED IN LOCATIONS WHICH ARE MEANINGFUL TO INDIVIDUALS.

DR. DOUGLAS DOCKERY Chair, Department of Environmental Health Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health INTERVIEW 10.19.10

OVERWHELM THE PROBLEM WITH DATA

DR. JONATHAN LEVY Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Health Department of Environmental Health Department of Health Policy and Management BOSTON UNIVERSITY INTERVIEW 11.01.10

FRAMEWORK METHODOLOGY PROCESS

WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS? VIRTUAL COMMONS SPACE WHERE DOES THIS TAKE PLACE? GEO-SPECIFICS SOCIAL CURRENCY - EMPOWERMENT THROUGH INFORMATION

FRAMEWORK/PROCESS/METHODOLOGY

STAKEHOLDERS
*INDIVIDUAL students residents commuter *COMMUNITY GROUPS united neighbors of lower roxbury dudley street neighborhood association *RESEARCHERS SCIENTISTS harvard school public health boston university school of public health *POLICY MAKERS + POLITICIANS -city of boston -e.p.a region one

FRAMEWORK/STAKEHOLDERS

VIRTUAL COMMONS
www.roxburyair.com

LINKS FORUM BLOG

*VIRTUAL COMMONS *DATA + IDENTITY *REMAPPING?

FRAMEWORK/VIRTUAL PUBLIC/DATACOMMONS

GEOSPECIFICS
*CONCEPTUAL TARGETS indoor outdoor public private personal *SPECIFIC TARGETS / MICRO-ENVIRONMENTS dudley square lower roxbury I-93 dorchestor

FRAMEWORK/GEO SPECIFIC/PHYSICAL DOMAINS

SOCIAL CURRENCY
*HOW IS KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION TRANSMITTED? *OPPORTUNITY FOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE *OUTPUTS POLICY MAKERS / POLITICIANS RESEARCHERS / SCIENTISTS PUBLIC LOCAL COMMUNITY PERSONAL

FRAMEWORK/SOCIAL CURRENCY

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY INPUT

DATA COMMONS VIRTUAL PUBLIC EXCHANGE

POLICY MAKERS

RESEARCHERS

INDIVIDUAL

SPACE OF CONCERN

OUTPUT
PUBLIC

COMMUNITY GROUPS ACCESS TO RESOURCES

PERSONAL

FRAMEWORK/PROCESS

HOW WOULD YOU INCORPORATE AN ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR INTO YOUR PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT?

MELANIE theater person brookline,ma 11.19.10 Pavement Coffee House

HEATHER architecture student wentworth institute of technology boston,ma 11.19.10 library @ wit

TYSHAUN dorchestor resident 11.21.10 GSD

MIKE cambridge gsd student

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SHARING NETWORK TUTORIAL KITS

EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE EXCHANGE OF TOOL/RESOURCES

A IR A I R A I R A IR A I R A I R

sensory kit

bike

MICROPROCESSOR $6.00-30.00

SENSORS
garo tgs 820 automobile and diesal exhaust garo tgs 822 voc

$6.00 - 20.00

#dene LED 9 //the pin for the led int gasSensor = 0; // select input pin for gasSensor int val = 0; // variable to store the value coming from the sensor

void setup () { Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(LED, OUTPUT); // LED is as an OUTPUT } void loop() { val = analogRead(gasSensor); // read the value from the pot Serial.println(val); delay(100);

serial monitor

exhaust sensor
PIN 01 PIN 02 PIN 03 PIN 04

pont.
PIN 01 PIN 02 PIN 03

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val = analogRead(gasSensor); //read the value from the sensor

VIN GROUND GROUND 5V A5 A4 A3 A2 A1 A0
LED LED

if (val >17){ digitalWrite(9, LOW); //turn the led on delay(100); digitalWrite(9, HIGH); //turn the led on delay(100); } if (val <17){ digitalWrite(9, LOW); //turn the led on }

LED

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AREF GRD 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00

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11.17.10 HARVARD GSD 10:30 a.m

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UNFILTERED LUCKY STRIKES

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inhale

exhale

avg low high

inhale

2.57 0 29

exhale

inhale

C0,H2, UNCOMBUSTED HYDROCARBONS

exhale

inhale

exhale

garo 2010 TGS 2201 GASOLINE EXHAUST GAS

inhale
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(C0,H2, UNCOMBUSTED HYDROCARBONS)

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