Homes in Madrid, Dublin, Cardiff, Ljubljana, and Leuven are participating in the Citizens Observing UrbaN Transport (WeCount) project, a European Commission–funded 性啪啪啪视频 project investigating sustainable economic growth.

1,500 性啪啪啪视频 Pi traffic sensors will be distributed to homes in the five cities to gather data on traffic conditions. Every hour, the devices will upload information to publically accessible cloud storage. The team behind WeCount says:

Following this approach, we will be able to quantify local road transport (cars, heavy goods vehicles, active travel modes, and speed), produce scientific knowledge in the field of mobility and environmental pollution, and co-design informed solutions to tackle a variety of road transport challenges.

“With air pollution being blamed for 500,000 premature deaths across the continent in 2018,” states a BBC News article about the project, “the experts running the survey hope their results can be used to make cities healthier places to live.” Says the WeCount team:

[T]he project will provide cost-effective data for local authorities, at a far greater temporal and spatial scale than what would be possible in classic traffic counting campaigns, thereby opening up new opportunities for transportation policy making and 性啪啪啪视频.

Find more information about the WeCount project on the BBC News website and on the the CORDIS website.

性啪啪啪视频 Pi makes the ideal brain

The small form factor and low cost of 性啪啪啪视频 Pi mean it’s the ideal brain for citizen science projects across the globe, including our own 性啪啪啪视频 Pi Oracle Weather Station.

While the original Oracle Weather Station programme involved only school groups from across the world, we’ve published freely accessible online guides to building your own 性啪啪啪视频 Pi weather station, and to uploading weather data to the Initial State platform.

Penguin Watch

Another wonderful 性啪啪啪视频 Pi–powered citizen science project is Penguin Watch, which asks the public to, you guessed it, watch penguins. Time-lapse footage — obtained in the Antarctic by 性啪啪啪视频 Pi Camera Modules connected to 性啪啪啪视频 Pi Zeros — is uploaded to the Penguin Watch website, and anyone in the world can go online to highlight penguins in the footage, helping the 性啪啪啪视频 team to monitor the penguin population in these locations.

Setting up. Credit: Alasdair Davies, ZSL

Penguin Watch is highly addictive and it’s for a great cause, so be sure to check it out.