Measure It Yourself-Why Smart Cities Need Custom Weather Data Sources

Creators: Erbel, Raphaela and Brune, Philipp
Title: Measure It Yourself-Why Smart Cities Need Custom Weather Data Sources
Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Event Title: (Proceedings of the) 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)
Event Location: Rome, Italy
Event Dates: August, 22-24, 2022
Projects: TTZ-GZ, Living City
Page Range: pp. 221-226
Date: 10 October 2022
Divisions: Informationsmanagement
Abstract (ENG): Smart city applications could help to improve citizens’ well-being, health and mobility by providing, e.g., intelligent recommendations for personalized leisure activities and transport options in urban areas. One important factor that influences peoples’ choices and behavior is the weather. Hence, accurate data are needed for making reliable predictions. Those weather data may be obtained either from publicly available open data services or measured by a custom sensor network. Despite the importance of weather data, the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches have not been studied systematically so far. Therefore, in this paper the design and implementation of a custom sensor network and results from its comparative evaluation with open weather data within a field experiment in a German city will be presented. Results indicate that for adequate accounting of local weather deviations (i.e. micro weather) within a city or urban area, public data services might not be sufficient and a custom sensor network should be implemented.
Forthcoming: No
Main areas or research: Health, Transformationmanagement
Language: English
Citation:

Erbel, Raphaela and Brune, Philipp (2022) Measure It Yourself-Why Smart Cities Need Custom Weather Data Sources. In: (Proceedings of the) 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), August, 22-24, 2022, Rome, Italy, pp. 221-226. ISBN 9781665493505

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