The Chicago Array of Things is doing a fantastic job of collecting all kinds of data, and lots of it. This app makes it possible to make sense of all this data in an easy-to-visualize way that we can understand and use to better our city.
The Chicago Array of Things is doing a fantastic job of collecting all kinds of data, and lots of it. This app makes it possible to make sense of all this data in an easy-to-visualize way that we can understand and use to better our city.
There is a wide range of environmental data points that are collected by the nodes including temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, ambient, ultraviolet and infrared light, sound pressure, vibrations and magnetic field.
Air quality data is concerned with measuring gas and particulate matter concentrations in the air including carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, total reducing gases, total oxidizing gases, PM2.5 and PM10.
In addition to the sensors on-board the nodes, there are two cameras on each node. The cameras are used exclusively by software that runs within the node. The raw images are never sent to any non-ephemeral storage and never leave the node. The information gathered by cameras include vehicle count, pedestrian count and real-time flooding detection.
