Kite-Mounted DIY Pollution Sensors Over Beijing
Air quality in Beijing is an increasingly well known problem, but trust in official data is low and the US Embassy’s @BeijingAir Twitter service has its own shortcomings. A pair of Carnegie Mellon University graduate students, Deren Guler and Xiaowei Wang, aim to put air monitoring into locals& ...
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[...] Kite-mounted air monitors — Strange yellow clouds blow into Beijing, yet the official government reports claim all is well. Some clever folks figured out how to put wireless sensors onto kites to create their own, ad-hoc monitoring network. They're asking for funding help to make the system even larger. [...]