Airy Notes: An Experiment of Microclimate Monitoring in Shinjuku Gyoen Garden

Author

Ito, Masaki ; Katagiri, Yukiko ; Ishikawa, Mikiko ; Tokuda, Hideyuki

Author_Institution

Keio Univ., Fujisawa

fYear

2007

fDate

6-8 June 2007

Firstpage

260

Lastpage

266

Abstract

This paper demonstrates Airy Notes system, which monitors environmental condition using tiny sensor modules and shows the characteristics of places intuitively on a map and on a cell phone. The system is designed to help the user´s easy understanding of the effect of green by densely placed sensor nodes. We conducted the experiment of the system in Shinjuku Gyoen Garden with 160 sensors. The garden is known for its effect of keeping temperature of nearby area calm with its green. We monitored the distribution of temperature, and observed that the temperature of the inner place was lower than the edge of the garden.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; cellular radio; climatology; geophysics computing; microsensors; wireless sensor networks; Airy Notes system; Japan; Shinjuku Gyoen Garden; Tokyo; cell phone; environmental condition monitoring; local area temperature; microclimate monitoring; sensor modules; temperature distribution; Cellular phones; Computerized monitoring; Humans; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Temperature distribution; Temperature sensors; Thermal pollution; Ubiquitous computing; Wireless sensor networks; Distribution of Temperature; Environmental Monitoring; Field Experiment; The uPart Wireless Sensor Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networked Sensing Systems, 2007. INSS '07. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braunschweig

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1231-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INSS.2007.4297429

Filename

4297429