Heat and air pollution persist as major public health hazards in urban environments. Yet
there are gaps in the quality of information about the hazards as conditions tend to be …

Drive-by sensing (ie vehicle-based mobile sensing) is an emerging data collection paradigm
that leverages vehicle mobilities to scan a city at low costs. It represents a positive social …

In this paper we present the requirements, design and pre-deployment testing of a
transportation bus as a Mobile Enterprise Sensor Bus (M-ESB) service in China that …

Energy efficiency is one of the most important criteria in the design of a wireless sensor
network. Sensor nodes are usually battery-powered and thus have very limited lifetime. In …

Air pollution monitoring is a very popular research topic and many monitoring systems have
been developed. In this paper, we formulate the Bus Sensor Deployment Problem (BSDP) to …

The sensing range of a sensor is spatially limited. Thus, achieving a good coverage of a
large area of interest requires installation of a huge number of sensors which is cost and …

Smart cities are a hot topic nowadays for several reasons. For city managers and citizens a
smart city is a concept that should allow providing better services and/or with more …

Thanks to the coordinated infrastructure composed by a distributed collection of different
resources, sensor webs currently represent a very effective solution to earth observation …

Between 2012 and 2015, the PMetro project collected space–time aerosol and gas
measurements by using instruments integrated on one of the Minimetro cabins, a public …

The rapid growth of megacities has led to higher levels of air pollution in cities. To
supplement fixed air quality monitoring sites, the megacities offer an unprecedented …