bike-mounted-bluejacking-pollution-sensors
September 17th, 2004
equator, a collaborative project between a bunch of UK universities, are working on a project they call the ‘urban pollution project‘.
essentially they’ve created pollution monitoring points around cities, which are signed as such. they record pollution levels, and when a user with a bluetooth device walks nearby, they get bluejacked, asking if they’d like to know the pollution levels. if they say yes, it tells them, and if it is high, you’ll know to avoid that street on your walk to work in the future.
and now they’re working on a handlebar mounted version for cyclists:
interestingly, they have discovered there are often large pollution ’spikes’ near bus stops. who would have thought it.
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