Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures
Accurate air temperature observations in urban areas are important for meteorology and energy demand planning. They are indispensable to study the urban heat island effect and the adverse effects of high temperatures on human health. However, the availability of temperature observations in cities is...
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| author | Overeem, A. Leijnse, H. Steeneveld, G. J. Uijlenhoet, R. Horn, Berthold Klaus Paul Robinson, J. C. R. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Overeem, A. Leijnse, H. Steeneveld, G. J. Uijlenhoet, R. Horn, Berthold Klaus Paul Robinson, J. C. R. |
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| description | Accurate air temperature observations in urban areas are important for meteorology and energy demand planning. They are indispensable to study the urban heat island effect and the adverse effects of high temperatures on human health. However, the availability of temperature observations in cities is often limited. Here we show that relatively accurate air temperature information for the urban canopy layer can be obtained from an alternative, nowadays omnipresent source: smartphones. In this study, battery temperatures were collected by an Android application for smartphones. A straightforward heat transfer model is employed to estimate daily mean air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures for eight major cities around the world. The results demonstrate the enormous potential of this crowdsourcing application for real-time temperature monitoring in densely populated areas. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/863622022-10-01T01:14:26Z Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures Overeem, A. Leijnse, H. Steeneveld, G. J. Uijlenhoet, R. Horn, Berthold Klaus Paul Robinson, J. C. R. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Horn, Berthold Klaus Paul Accurate air temperature observations in urban areas are important for meteorology and energy demand planning. They are indispensable to study the urban heat island effect and the adverse effects of high temperatures on human health. However, the availability of temperature observations in cities is often limited. Here we show that relatively accurate air temperature information for the urban canopy layer can be obtained from an alternative, nowadays omnipresent source: smartphones. In this study, battery temperatures were collected by an Android application for smartphones. A straightforward heat transfer model is employed to estimate daily mean air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures for eight major cities around the world. The results demonstrate the enormous potential of this crowdsourcing application for real-time temperature monitoring in densely populated areas. 2014-05-02T14:49:59Z 2014-05-02T14:49:59Z 2013-08 2013-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 00948276 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86362 Overeem, A., J. C. R. Robinson, H. Leijnse, G. J. Steeneveld, B. K. P. Horn, and R. Uijlenhoet. “Crowdsourcing Urban Air Temperatures from Smartphone Battery Temperatures.” Geophys. Res. Lett. 40, no. 15 (August 16, 2013): 4081–4085. © 2013 American Geophysical Union https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-391X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/grl.50786 Geophysical Research Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Geophysical Union (AGU) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Overeem, A. Leijnse, H. Steeneveld, G. J. Uijlenhoet, R. Horn, Berthold Klaus Paul Robinson, J. C. R. Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures |
| title | Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures |
| title_full | Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures |
| title_fullStr | Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures |
| title_short | Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperatures |
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