Urban octopuses and biodegradable trackers, REGEN communities through participatory sensing
I will present research done at MIT Senseable City Lab in the field of community sensing with focus on two projects: Octopus and Tiny Tracker. Octopus is an open-source, low-cost platform for makers to develop personal urban sensing projects that is currently piloted in informal settlements in Brazil. Tiny Tracker explores the use of biodegradable trackers to study urban waste streams.
About Simone Mora
Simone Mora is a Research Scientist at MIT (USA) and an Adj. Ass. Professor at NTNU (Norway). He does research on low-cost sensing technologies and their applications for future cities. He leads MIT’s City Scanner Research Initiative, which develops sensing platforms currently used by cities and research institutes worldwide to give data-driven answers society-critical research questions in the fields of environmental science and city planning. His recent publications appeared on Elsevier HardwareX, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Nature Sustainability. He is the co-inventor of Tiles IoT Toolkit, an ideation toolkit to tackle the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (tilestoolkit.io).