PEIR is featured in Nokia’s Technology Insights Series publication on Sensing the World with Mobile Devices.
Read the article by downloading the PDF here: Nokia NTI - Sensing the World With Mobile Devices
PEIR and Go Green foundation are The Real Story on KCBS this afternoon.
Martin Gutierrez is interviewed by Colleen Edwards.
You can listen to the interview online at KCBS.
PEIR and Go Green Foundation’s high school sustainability challenge was featured in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.
Read the article here: Program helps kids find their carbon impact.
As students in San Francisco continue to use PEIR as part of the Go Green Foundation sustainability challenge for understanding their travel-related environmental impact, this new mobile-to-web technology is highlighted as part of a wide angle series on the future of highways. Read more at: Wide Angle: All the Cool Kids Have Them.
The Go Green Foundation is partnering with PEIR and NRC PA in San Francisco to use PEIR for a high school students sustainability challenge. The interview with Martin Guttierrez, Go Green Founder aired on NPR’s All Things Considered, March 16, 2009.
Listen at NPR’s site.
The Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) is at Wired NextFest starting today up until October 12! Come check us out (and some 40 other amazing projects) if you’re in the Chicago area. Did I mention it’s free? Yeah, it’s free, so you really have no excuse. What better way to spend an afternoon than walking around “the premier showcase of the global innovations transforming our world?”
In a nutshell, PEIR is a way to track how you interact with the environment. You upload GPS data with your mobile phone, and PEIR estimates both how you impact the environment and how the environment impacts you. What is your carbon footprint? How often are you exposed to high levels of pollution? Login to your online personal profile to find out.
Anyways, I can describe our project all the live long day, but nothing will compare to actually trying it out for yourself, so when you’re at NextFest (because I know you’re coming), come find PEIR and check out our demos. If you can’t make it, don’t worry, you can also take PEIR out for a spin at the website.
The Personal Environmental Impact Report, PEIR, was recently featured in UCLA Today, UCLA’s faculty and staff newspaper:
UCLA’s Deborah Estrin has put herself on the line for her work, comparing her carbon output to that of her friends and then showing the results, flattering or unflattering, on Facebook.
For Estrin, a computer science professor and director of UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, it’s not about socializing. It’s beta testing for CENS’ newest invention — the personal environmental impact report.
By downloading software onto a GPS cell phone, users can get daily reports on how much smog they produced while driving, how much pollution they inhaled while walking and even how many fast-food joints tempted them along the path of their commute or jog. An interactive Web site traces lines across a map showing details such as where a user drove, how long the trip took and whether the driver passed through any particularly polluted areas.
Check out the rest of the article here.
Since the PEIR launch, we have noticed some small bugs related to our modeling computations. In particular, the PM2.5 exposure model is not returning consistent values. Our developers are working night and day (literally) to repair the code and we should be in good working order in the next two to three days.
Rather than discontinue public access to the demo user and their data, we have decided to simply put this warning in place temporarily.
CENS researcher Mark Hansen and his collaborators Dana Cuff and Jerry Kang’s recent article on urban sensing appearing in the March 2008 issue of the Communications of the ACM highlights the transition of embedded networked sensing from both laboratory and enbvironmental applications in to the public sphere. The researcher’s explore the realm of citizen-initiated sensing and the data commons. To read more: D. Cuff, M. Hansen, J. Kang. “Urban sensing: out of the woods.”
Communications of the ACM 51(3):24-33, 2008. Read this article now [PDF]
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