A new wearable monitoring system for investigating pedestrians' environmental conditions: Development of the experimental tool and start-up findings

The Science of the Total Environment
Ilaria Pigliautile, Anna Laura Pisello

Abstract

Urban population is predicted to increase rapidly and massively in the next decades, by producing also the exacerbation of urban scale climate change imputable to anthropogenic actions, such as urban heat island. In this view, urban pedestrians assume a key role in determining city livability in dense built environments, typically much more polluted than suburban or rural areas. Despite that, urban heat island experimental studies are pretty focused on data collected by means of permanent microclimate stations for environmental monitoring, also coupled with satellite measurements or mobile stations equipped over transportation media. This work deals with the development, experimental startup with field test and critical data analysis of a brand new wearable system for microclimate and air quality investigation, just developed with the purpose to characterize livability environmental conditions which affect urban population wellbeing. To this aim, the experimental tool definition and the first field test are carried out in a historical city centre in Italy, where cluster analysis is performed in order to also identify the role of urban design in affecting key microclimate parameters such as air temperature, solar radiation, dayl...Continue Reading

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Jul 7, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research·Ioannis KousisAnna Laura Pisello
Dec 7, 2021·The Science of the Total Environment·Se Woong Kim, Robert D Brown

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