IoT device used for air pollution campaign to encourage cycling habit in inverleith neighborhood

This paper describes a collaboration research that have been accomplished together between Design Informatics Program at The University of Edinburgh and The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) in Inverleith. CEC has several priority plans listed in 2014-2017 local community plan. One of that priorities is to improve cycling habit within the society. This project was intended to motivate people to do more cycling by creating awareness about air pollution issues. The utilization of Internet of Things (IoT devices), secondary data analysis and physical data visualization were methodology approaches used in this project. This paper explains workflow of the project, including data collection and analysis, participatory design workshop, field measurement and physical data visualization. Based on the analysis of data in this research, a series of physical installation was deployed as the outcome of this research.