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<h2 class="featurette-heading">What Is The Array of Things?
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<p class="lead">What if a light pole told you to watch out for an icy patch of sidewalk ahead? What if an app told you the most populated route for a late-night walk to the El station by yourself? What if you could get weather and air quality information block-by-block, instead of city-by-city?</p>
<p class="lead">The Array of Things (AoT) is a network of interactive, modular sensor boxes around Chicago collecting real-time data on the city’s environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use.</p>
<p class="lead">Read more about Array of Things at <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-19/chicago-is-your-big-friendly-brother">Bloomberg View</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/June-2014/What-Chicagos-Array-of-Things-Will-Actually-Do/">Chicago Magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/24/chicago-big-data-sensors/11301333/">USA Today</a>, the <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/30446308-452/internet-of-everything-lights-the-way-in-chicago.html#.VD_fjIt4ofQ">Chicago Sun-Times</a>, and <a href="http://www.saic.edu/highlights/saicstories/opendataopencity/">E+D Magazine</a>, or watch <a href="http://video.wired.com/watch/array-of-things-a-fitbit-for-the-city-2014-10-18">a video on the project from WIRED</a>. Array of Things was a nominee for the <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/vote-winner-2014-peoples-design-award-180952652/?page=10">2014 Cooper Hewitt People's Design Award</a>.</p>
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<li>To better understand the natural and built environment of the city and its impact on livability with respect to climate, air quality, noise, and other factors -- effectively creating a "fitness tracker" for Chicago.
<li>To make this data available to residents, software developers, scientists, and policymakers so that all can work together to make cities healthier, more livable, and more efficient.
<li>To enable research, development, prototyping, and demonstration of new capabilities that require embedding hardware and software technologies in the city's infrastructure.
<li>To enable new training and education opportunities in science and technology, particularly related to cities.</ul><br>
<p class="lead">AoT intends to operate as a “national instrument” for urban science and technology research, ranging from technology to social sciences and education.
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<p class="lead">Sensors in the first prototype units are aimed primarily at understanding atmosphere, air quality, and environmental factors: temperature, humidity, light, carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>), and vibration. Additional environmental sensors including Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Ozone (O<sub>3</sub>), Carbon Dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>), Sulfur Oxides, and Particulate Matter are being evaluated for the first prototypes as well. Precipitation and wind measurements will be added later.</p>
<p class="lead">Three sensors are affected by human activity. A sound sensor will collect data on ambient volume -- the level of noise at the node. An infrared camera, pointed at nearby sidewalk and roads, collects surface temperature information. A wireless network can count the number of Bluetooth- or WiFi-enabled devices in the vicinity of the node, as a proxy for pedestrian traffic. None of these sensors will collect or record any personal or identifying information.</p>
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<p class="lead">Potential applications of data collected by the Array of Things include:</p>
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<li>Sensors monitoring air quality, sound and vibration (to detect heavy vehicle traffic), and temperature can be used to suggest the healthiest and unhealthiest walking times and routes through the city.
<li>Infrared cameras measuring sidewalk and street temperature can guide salting responses during winter storms, allowing for targeted application of salt that saves money and prevents environmental damage.
<li>Measurements of micro-climate in different areas of the city, so that residents can get up-to-date, high-resolution "block-by-block" weather information: by the lake, in a specific neighborhood, at the baseball game.
<li>Observe which areas of the city are heavily populated by pedestrians at different times of day to suggest safe and efficient routes for walking late at night or for timing traffic lights during peak traffic hours.
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<p class="lead">All data will be published with multiple updates per minute, openly and at no cost, following the City of Chicago's established practice that data about the city is not monetized but is provided as a public utility.</p>
<p class="lead">In addition, all software, hardware, parts, and specifications will also be published as open source, to encourage participation and oversight from the developer community and public. You can view the architecture of <a href="/node.html">the prototype nodes here</a>. Full specifications will be available soon at <a href="https://github.com/ArrayOfThings">our Github page</a>, when the initial node design is finalized.</p>
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<p class="lead">All software, hardware, and experiments will be regularly reviewed for privacy, security, and scientific considerations by independent experts from industry, academia, and government. Final approval for all instrumentation and data collection will be granted through an executive committee led by the City of Chicago and including research and community membership.</p>
<p class="lead">The nodes will estimate pedestrian traffic flow by recognizing the presence of mobile devices, but are designed such that they have no technological capability to compromise the security or privacy of device owners. They simply recognize that nearby devices are emitting signals.</p>
<p class="lead">Prior to deployment, a comprehensive set of privacy and security requirements and an independent review process will be finalized, including the restriction that <em>no personal or identifying information will be collected</em>. These requirements and processes will be posted for public review and input in the coming weeks.</p>
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<p class="lead">The first phase prototype of the Array of Things involves 50 nodes funded by Argonne National Laboratory, with the first 40 to be deployed on urban (University of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and suburban (Argonne National Laboratory) campuses for system reliability and resilience testing through Winter 2014-15. Additional sites, including the University of Illinois-Chicago and Northern Illinois University, are under evaluation as well.</p>
<p class="lead">An additional eight nodes will be deployed along Michigan Avenue in Spring 2015 pending completion of a pilot project agreement with the City of Chicago. The AoT team is in discussions with multiple potential funding sources to deploy at least 500 additional nodes during 2015-2017, with location driven by input from residents, scientists, and policymakers.</p>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">Who is the Array of Things Team?</h2>
<p class="lead">The Array of Things project is led by Charlie Catlett and researchers from the <a href="http://www.urbanccd.org">Urban Center for Computation and Data</a> of the <a href="http://ci.uchicago.edu">Computation Institute</a>, a joint initiative of <a href="http://www.anl.gov">Argonne National Laboratory</a> and the <a href="http://www.uchicago.edu">University of Chicago</a>. The underlying software and hardware design was developed at Argonne National Laboratory by Pete Beckman, Charlie Catlett, and Rajesh Sankaran. The custom enclosure for the sensor nodes was designed by Douglas Pancoast and Satya Mark Basu of the <a href="http://www.saic.edu">School of the Art Institute of Chicago</a>. The project is executed in partnership with the City of Chicago.</p>
<p class="lead">The Array of Things project also involves partnerships with scientists at academic institutions including Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, Arizona State University, the Santa Fe Institute, University College London, Clemson University, and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Technical advice and support comes from a growing number of industry partners including Cisco, Schneider Electric, Intel, Qualcomm, Motorola Solutions, and Zebra Technologies.</p>
<p class="lead">Contact us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> and follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/arrayofthings">@arrayofthings</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArrayofThings">Facebook</a>.</p>
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