Environmental Data Network and Automated Analysis and Represenation

Recently, most of the Smart Cities and administrator are increasing attention to the Air Quality, to environment and weather. To this end, the number of sensors assessing environmental data are growing, and the complexity for their aggregation, integration, assessment and exploitation is increasing as well. Once of the main objectives in this context is to (i) provide services independently on the number of sensors, on their position; (ii) provide services on a large number of devices in a modality that can be understood by everybody. It is probably finished the time in which the values regarding the environmental sensors would be few and kept under control of few operators to avoid misunderstanding. Presently, most of the city users are aware about the meaning of environmental data, and in most cases, have also bought their own devices to monitor the quality of the air in specific location they would like to control. This is what is occurring in Helsinki for instance, in which a large number of citizens are hosting air quality sensors on their gardens, balcony, etc. In this paper, we are showing one of the results of Snap4City solution applied to environmental data in Helsinki. Snap4City https://www.snap4city.org has been developed as a part Select4Cities PCP project of the European Commission.