Using Dust Sensors and Mist Makers for Public Awareness in Philadelphia’s ‘Playgrounds’ Simran Arora + Roshini Ganesh + Eduardo Martinez Villanueva + Yunfan Xu Introduction Philadelphia is facing a serious air pollution crisis. Recent studies show that the city has some of the worst air quality in the country, with dangerous levels of fine particulate […]
By Gustell Preston, Noah Johnson, Stephanie Cheng and Shreya Bansal Acknowledgement This project would not come to fruition without the invaluable mentorship and support of our instructor, Professor Allison Lassiter, and our peers in the CPLN571 Sensing the City class (Spring 2023). We are grateful to have our idea published. Overview This is an interactive […]
Chenxi Zhu | Minwook Kang | Teresa Chang | Yihong Hu Healthy Nook is an installation that aims to improve health and environmental conditions for community gardeners in the field. It features: Overall, it will make community gardening experience more enjoyable, comfortable, and less physically demanding! Motivation There are more than 400 community gardens in […]
Changhao Li, Hang Zhao, Hongyi Li, Jingyi Cai Smart Parking Philadelphia(SPP) is a program that detects and visualizes the availability of street parking. With the help of SPP, Philadelphia can reduce congestion, pollution and traffic accidents in the center city. It will use an LED matrix to visualize current availability of street parking, and guide […]
Delfina Vildosola + Anushka Samant + Kathleen Scopis + Laura Frances Sunbrella is an autonomous micro bus shelter that tracks the sun to cast the greatest shade coverage keeping commuters in any neighborhood cool all day. At night, embedded street lights automatically turn on and when it rains, the shelter responsively changes position, too. Since […]
Introduction The following tutorial explores one way that we can interact with LCD screens with the help of an Arduino Uno board and RC522 RFID sensor. Nowadays, Liquid-crystal Display (LCD) screens are everywhere. Found attached to household items, like televisions and refrigerators, to lining streetscapes reporting advertisements and local news – these devices are commonplace […]
BACKGROUND This tutorial will explain how to mist or humidify one’s surroundings as a response to an environmental trigger using the Arduino Uno in connection with Grove’s Water Atomizer. This tutorial is the fourth in the series of tutorials corresponding to the ‘Philly Air Mist’ project completed in the Sensing the City course taught by […]
Now it’s time to share your project in class and on the blog. Presentation On April 26, 1:45p–4:45p, we will meet in the Kleinman Center. You will have 10 minutes for your presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Then, we will use the remaining class time for some post-project/last-day-of-classes celebrating with our OIT visitors! I […]
Overview In this tutorial, we will show you how to connect an Arduino UNO R3 with an ESP8266 WiFi module mounted on an ESP-01 adapter. We will also explain the steps for setting up a new channel on ThingSpeak and how to write data on the channel. This tutorial is suitable for beginners who want […]
Overview This is an overview of the first tutorial for Smart Parking Philadelphia(SPP), detection using Grove inductive sensors. The project is about the data collection part of the smart parking project. In this project, we will use Grove inductive sensors to count the number of vehicles and calculate the number of parking spaces remaining, and […]