Potential Applications
The Array of Things might be used to...
- Suggest the healthiest and unhealthiest walking times and routes through the city
- Study the relationship between diseases and the urban environment
- Provide real-time detection of urban flooding and improve city services and infrastructure to prevent property damage and illness
- Provide residents up-to-date, high-resolution "block-by-block" weather and climate information
- Suggest safe and efficient routes for walking late at night
- Time traffic lights during peak traffic hours to improve pedestrian safety and reduce congestion-related pollution.
In late 2018 a new set of application programming interfaces (APIs) were released to support the development of applications, portals, and other tools to provide value from the data.
Several groups are developing smartphone applications that would...
- Provide navigation tips based on air quality, noise levels, or excessive heat
- Allow a resident to subscribe to air quality alerts, including information about allergies and asthma