Press Release: UCLA Researchers Create PEIR Using Cell Phones as Sensors
PEIR was released into the wild this week. Here’s the first part of the press release:
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UCLA researchers unveiled a new tool this week to help people understand their relationship with the environment. The Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) lets users see online how their daily choices affect the environment and how the environment affects them, by providing personalized, daily estimates of measures like particulate matter exposure on roadways and carbon emissions due to driving. PEIR was developed by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in collaboration with the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto.
Participatory Sensing
This work with PEIR is part of our broader research scope - participatory sensing. Mobile phones are more than just phones; they’re personal sensors that we can use to better understand our behaviors, habits, and surroundings. The following video is our vision.
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