URBMOBI A mobile measurement device for urban environmental monitoring T. Sachsen1, G. Ketzler1, I. Maras1, C. Schneider1 and the URBMOBI Team2 1RWTH Aachen University, 2BME / ARIA Technologies / MEEO / TNO INTRODUCTION URBMOBI develops a novel mobile instrument for urban areas that provides spatially distributed environmental data. It fulfills the need for monitoring at various places without the costs for a large number of fixed meteorological or air quality stations. It integrates state-of-the art sensors in a system that will be operated on buses, trams or other vehicles. The prototype URBMOBI-H will focus on air temperature, relative humidity and solar radiation. Other revenant variables will be introduced at a later stage. The system will allow easy data handling based on geo-location technology and data transmission by telecommunication networks. Integration of the data into real-time climate and air quality models will provide climate services and environmental data for a wide range of applications. To foster market accessibility visualization tools and an accompanying graphical user interface will be developed. URBMOBI-H GIS Integration Meteorological Modelling with Measured Data Sensor Specification Data Communication & Transfer Specification Data Integration with Models System Demonstration on Buses Sensor Hardware & Software Development Visualization and Graphical User Interface System Testing on Car Data Integration with Models Market Survey Post-processing Software & Interfaces URBMOBI 1.0 URBMOBI 1.0 forms the starting point for the development of URBMOBI-H. It was operated by RWTH Aachen University and the local bus company (ASEAG) in 2010 and 2011. Fig. 1: URBMOBI 1.0 in operation VISUALIZATION URBMOBI-H will be accompanied with a graphical user interface and visualization tool: MEA (Multi-sensor Evolution Analysis) hhh hhh Fig. 2: ∆T between mobile measurements and a reference station. Fig. 3: Example from the MEA (Multi-sensor Evolution Analysis) visualization platform (MEEO). Team hhh Dr. Timo Sachsen [email protected] www.klimageo.rwthaachen.de/index.php?id=urbmobi