Success case

“Smart Citizen Kit” by Fab Lab Barcelona, European Commission and Seeed Going Global: Environmental Monitoring for Civic Participation in Urban and Suburban Communities

Smart Citizen Kit is a completely open-source environmental monitoring device developed for the global Smart Citizen Project by Seeed, Fab Lab Barcelona, IAAC, and European Commision. This Kit allows citizens to easily measure, collect, integrate, and visualize data on an openly-shared platform that will help the citizens to tackle local challenges in their communities. This Project seeks to influence the UN’s SDGs 1, 12, 3, 16, 17, 13, 4, 6, 10, 5 and 9.

Industry
Environment & Sustainability
Region
全球·社区学校网络
Application
Community environmental monitoring

Project background and needs

The Smart Citizen project, designed by Fab Lab Barcelona and manufactured by Seeed, provides an open-source environmental monitoring kit to a global network of communities and schools, uploading data over Wi-Fi to an open platform for sharing, analysis, and education.

  • The Smart Citizen project is a global citizen-science initiative.

Public monitoring tools

  • The project wants ordinary citizens to be able to monitor their community's environmental quality.
  • The tool targets users with no technical background.

Needs environmental monitoring devices that are easy to deploy and use.

Data sharing and action

  • Citizens need to use the collected data to take part in environmental improvement.
  • Community members need to access real-time data and analyze trends.

Needs an open platform for displaying and sharing data.

Solution and architecture

Community sensing

The open-source Smart Citizen Kit measures air quality, temperature, humidity, noise, light, and air pressure.

Open data

Data uploads automatically over Wi-Fi to the Smart Citizen platform, where users view real-time data, analyze trends, and share findings online.

Solution components

Results

Dozens of countries and regions
Global deployment reach

The Smart Citizen project network as of the time the source was written

Millions of data points
Cumulative environmental data

Aggregate global deployment described in the source.

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