SOCIO-BEE: Example of a Citizen Science Community for the Co-Creation of Measures to Reduce the Impact of Environmental Pollution in the Framework of Smart Cities

Despite the fact that nowadays there are many environmental monitoring stations in cities as well as different initiatives that provide open data on their measurements, there are gaps in terms of the availability and accuracy of these data. In many cases this information only gathers georeferenced data at static positions and in a number not significant enough to describe the diverse and dynamic environmental situations that can be found in an urban environment. The SOCIO-BEE initiative described in this article is not only a technological solution to obtain dynamic data from a larger geographical area, but its main objective is to involve citizens in this data collection, its exploitation and the taking of measures to help mitigate the environmental impact, all in a context of co-creation and citizen participation.