Weather Sensebox for Schools

Thomas Bartoschek, ifgi

2nd Digital CyberScience Summit, London, 18.02.2012

WEATHERFOR SCHOOLS

Mittwoch, 11. April 2012

CITIZEN SCIENCE @


Pupils

•Projects•Lessons•Holiday courses•Rent-a-X•MExLab


Pupils


Teachers

•Teacher training•Projects •Rent-a-X


Pupils


Teachers


Projects

•Mapping parties•Traffic monitoring•Solar potential•Noise mapping• ...


Pupils


Teachers


Projects

•Mapping parties•Traffic monitoring•Solar potential•Noise mapping• ...

primary goals➙ bringing GI Science into schools

➙ including students into all phases of participative scientific projects


EVOLUTION


EVOLUTION

• established 2006

• ca. 150 schools

• ca. 610 teachers

• ca. 6000 pupils

(by February 2012)


EVOLUTION

• established 2006

• ca. 150 schools

• ca. 610 teachers

• ca. 6000 pupils

(by February 2012)

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activities


Web of Things

- connecting real world objects to the Web- identity: URI- communication: i.e. HTTP GET- memory

Web Thing

HTTP

HTTP


WEB OF THINGS APPLICATION

sense

Web

reason

communicate

Aim: generic sensor platform on the web


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= WEATHER

FOR SCHOOLS

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WEATHER SENSEBOX FOR SCHOOLS

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DO IT YOURSELF KIT


PRICE TABLE

Component Price

Arduino Uno 25 €Ethernet Shield 32 €

GPS Shield + Antenna 45 €Wind / Rain Sensors 50 €

Pressure sensor (BMP085) 17 €Humidity + Temperature (SHT15) 35 €

Power supply 30 €Cables + weather proof setup 15 €

249 €


SENSEBOX PORTAL


DATA INTEGRATION

• Schools can access the data of their station AND all other stations in the portal

• buliding a network of participating schools, to share the weather data for further analysis (interpolations of local/regional weather, time series analysis).

• provide tutorials for reuse of weather data in other contexts, i.e., integration in social networks (facebook, twitter), apps or websites.


EXAMPLES

MAIL

SMS


INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION

• Computer Science

• Geography

• Mathemetics

• Physics

WEATHERFOR SCHOOLS


INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION

• Computer Science

• Geography

• Mathemetics

• Physics

WEATHERFOR SCHOOLS

WHAT THE KIDS DO?

• building the sensebox

• programming the protocols

• developing interfaces

• measurement statistics

• weather analysis


FUTURE WORK + CONLUSIONS

• Deployment to several schools (21 Letters of Intent)

• Development of lesson concepts

• open for further cooperations!

• We have a strong and big network of schools, to work with us!


COLLABORATIONS

• 52°north http://52north.org

• Working Group Climatology http://www.uni-muenster.de/Klima/

• Institute for Didacitcs of Geographyhttp://www.uni-muenster.de/Geographiedidaktik/

• Institute for Didactics of Computer Sciencehttp://ddi.uni-muenster.de/


http://www.uni-muenster.de/Klima/






http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geographiedidaktik/

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geographiedidaktik/

http://ddi.uni-muenster.de/

http://ddi.uni-muenster.de/

QUESTIONS / IDEAS?

Thomas [email protected]

http://ifgi.uni-muenster.dehttp://www.gi-at-school.de


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