Coscienza Ambientale – DIY environmental monitoring
Press release
(ITALIAN BELOW)
The 2018 edition of the “Transformatorio – Fourth International Laboratory of Experimental, Performing anSite-Specificic Arts”.
The lab is being prepared, organized by the Dutch foundation Dyne.org, in collaboration with the Cultural Association Siddharte and the Population of GIAMPILIERI.
In preparation on March 17th and 18th, an open laboratory of technologies will be held at the service of the perception of our environment. Held by dr. Paolo Bonelli CoScienza ambientale is a set of practical knowledge on how to build sensors to “feel” what the environment feels. (http://paolob087.wixsite.com/coscienzambientale).
The workshop is realized in collaboration between Dyne.org, Siddharte, Messina Municipality, FabLab Messina, University of Messina – Smart Me project, Permaculture Network Sicily, Sicilian Open Data, Wemake Milano and Radio Street Messina.
The laboratory days will be used to prepare the tools necessary for the installation of an experimental sensor network for environmental monitoring for the collection and transmission of data through LoRA technology (one of the wireless technologies that will contribute massively to the diffusion of the ecosystem IoT – Internet of Things – Internet of Things).
The quality of the air, of the water, the passage on a path, the quantity of sun or rain, the movement of the ground, the heat, the humidity, the presence or absence of water in a mountain basin, are given useful that can be captured by small sensors that are inexpensive and easy to implement and transmitted in the territory through open data applications.
Thanks to the activity and ingenuity of the “digital artisans” (commonly called “makers”), these sensors can also be built by simple citizens, installed and put on the network. It is the idea of the “smart city” very concrete and extended to our small towns, to the countryside, to the mountains.The collected data, once put at the service of the community, multiply in effectiveness and can be developed for many useful and practical applications.
The workshop has been organized to respond to the ideas gathered with the participation of the citizens in the Transformatory 2017 and will serve to provide ideas and links for the next artistic workshop in the area in April.
In fact, from 20 to 30 April in Scaletta Zanclea the use of environmental data provided by the sensors installed by citizens and housed in their homes, will serve to “let things talk back”: mountains, climate, animals and plants, will talk to us reverberating through artists’ projects.
Below is the FREE workshop program
March 17th, 9am – 1pm
– Outdoor Sensing: open source technologies at the service of the Citizen
– The Arduino revolution;
– Wireless data transmission;
– Sensors for all tastes;
– Sensors for civil protection: rain gauge, hydrometer, landslides, fires
– Interventions and discussion
March 17 15 – March 19/18 9 am – 1 pm
– Construction of sensor nodes by the participants divided into groups.
– Sensor tests
– Drafting of a manual for the management of the sensor node for local citizens who will have to take care of them.
March 18, 15 – 19 hours
– Installation of sensor nodes in the area and contacts with the local community.
– Definitive tests.
Registration for the twenty available places can be received
no later than March 11, 2018 at the e-mail address fredd@dyne.org
The workshop is free and a certificate of participation will be issued.
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