Prototyping of Environmental Kit for Georeferenced Transient Outdoor Comfort Assessment

Abstract

Environmental data acquisition tools are broadly used for climate monitoring and urban comfort assessment followed by data mining and sensing techniques for putting into evidence the relationship between environmental qualities of urban spaces and human well-being. Within this context, an environmental toolkit is a fundamental tool to evaluate transient outdoor comfort. This study explains the prototyping and validation of a mobile environmental sensor kit. The results show the prototype has reasonable accuracy despite its affordability with respect to industrial sensors.

Keywords

• environmental monitoring
• georeferenced data acquisition
• transient outdoor comfort
• urban microclimate