Another Day at the Beach: Combing Sensor Data with Human Perception and Intuition for the Monitoring and Care of Public Recreational Water Resources

Author

Bohlen, M. ; Clark, B. ; Dalton, Jordan ; Atkinson, John ; Blersch, Dave ; Yang, Lei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Media Study, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

16-17 July 2013

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

44

Abstract

We present a new approach to monitoring public recreational beach waters and describe a prototype system that collects data from sensors and from people and combines those to create a novel metric of water resource quality and appreciation. We present an evaluation of the system and consider some consequences for IT-enabled smart environments that monitor shared resources in general.

Keywords

environmental science computing; water quality; water resources; IT-enabled smart environment; human intuition; human perception; public recreational water resources; sensor data; water resource quality; Environmental monitoring; Interviews; Measurement; Sensors; Water pollution; Water resources; Ambient Intelligence for Water Resources; Computing and Society; Environmental Management; Numeracy; Participatory Sensing; Public Computational Media; Smart Monitoring; Urban Informatics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Environments (IE), 2013 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IE.2013.21

Filename

6597788