The "Smart Ring" Experience in l'Aquila (Italy): Integrating Smart Mobility Public Services with Air Quality Indexes (original) (raw)

This work presents the "City Dynamics and Smart Environment" activities of the Smart Ring project, a Smart City Paradigm, based on the integration of mobility urban services and environmental monitoring along a 4-5 km circular path, the "Smart Ring", around the historical centre of l'Aquila (Italy). We describe the integration of the mobility urban public service "Smartbus", an experimental on-demand public service electric bus with the multiparametric air quality low-cost electrochemical sensors NASUS IV, deployed to sample ambient air gas components (NO 2 , CO, SO 2 , H 2 S). For five days (28-29 August 2014 and 1-3 September 2014), NASUS IV was installed inside the Smartbus, and measured air quality parameters during the service. Data were collected and analysed on the base of an Air Quality index, which provides an insightful view of the status of the air quality potentially experienced by the Smartbus users, and indirectly, on the air quality along the Smart Ring track.