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Multi-sensor systems for the monitoring of the urban environment

SIM² - Innovative Multi-sensor Monitoring System

The SIM ² project - Villafranca has been jointly developed by TERRASYSTEM and Unisky for the municipality of Villafranca di Verona. This system, with a strong experimental component, is one of the first on a national level and it continuously measures some environmental variables such as the concentration of CO₂ , temperature, humidity and noise. The rapid and progressive reduction of the cost of sensors and transmission systems has allowed us to think about, rather than a model based on a small number of high-performance stations and both physical and economic high impacts, a network of numerous interconnected measure points , with cheap miniaturised sensors. The small and lightweight stations are mounted on simple poles and powered by a photovoltaic panel; a GPRS transmission module sends measurements to a central server , which processes statistics and conveys the information to the institution and to the public via the web portal TERRAStations .

Urban Mobile Network for the acquisition of weather and environmental data

This project, launched in March 2012 by DiPSA-University of Florence, is a system of small weather stations mounted on public transport in Florence, similar in type to those developed for the SIM ² project . The stations are powered by solar energy and rechargeable batteries and are composed of:
- sensors for temperature, humidity and pressure
- GPS for the continuous surveying of the position
- clock
- memory card
- GPRS data transmission module
The data is transmitted to a central server and is displayed through the portal TERRAStations, in which, in addition to data, there are the interactive charts of the weather variables and the Google maps with the real-time location of mobile stations. The system configuration allows for the future integration of additional types of sensors.