Environmental Wellbeing through Guerilla Sensing

Abstract

All over the world, individuals, companies, and institutions are exploiting the environment to gain an advantage for themselves. The damage to the environment affects people’s health and environmental wellbeeing. By Guerilla Sensing, we provide a platform to detect, spotlight, and monitor environmental pollution, that allows citizen to trigger a closed control loop and react to this exploitation by providing data reflecting the current environmental situation. it consists of an adaptive network of low-cost sensor nodes connected to an extensible platform, enabling complex analyses and detailed notifications. Guerilla Sensing can be used by citizens without any deep knowledge in measurements or computer science. The paper introduces the approach and the components of this platform. Applied to environmental parameters such as radiation and particulate matter, Guerilla Sensing is exemplarily evaluated.