Sensing the City Resources
This is a growing list of labs, projects and resources related to: urban and building scale energy databases, energy dashboard applications, monitoring systems, etc. Many of these can be incorporated into Arduino/Processing/Flash applications, Grasshopper/Firefly, Energy Analysis applications, GIS based applications, and more. Please send us additional links and we will publish them here:
Labs / Projects
Urban Sensing CENS (UCLA)
sensibleCITY Lab (MIT)
RealTime Rome Project (MIT)
Databases Examples
Pachube (Global Realtime Sensor Database Site)
XML or RSS Data Feeds (NOAA National Weather Service)
Google KML (tutorial - KML uses tag based structure with nest elements + attributes)
Dashboards + Monitors
Agilewaves (Resource Monitor Interfaces. Menlo Park, CA)
Lucid Design Group (Amp Sensor, Building Dashboard. Oakland, CA)
Google Power Meter (Cost: Free. Mountain View, CA)
Greenbox (now Silver Spring Networks. Redwood City, CA)
Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem (Mesh Network Interfaces. Boulder, CO)
Adura Technologies (Smart Grids, Control, Monitoring. San Francisco, CA)
Portable Devices/Intefaces - iPhone, etc.
TouchOSC (custom iphone OSC graphic interface)
Various iPhone Apps (iphone app to control building automation)
Sentilla (Buildiing and Urban Energy Manager. redwood City, CA )
Case Studies
Oklahoma MesoNet (Data + Maps - 110 automated stations covering Oklahoma)
Helsinki Testbed (Comprehensive Urban Sensing Network over Helsinki, Finland)
Solar Boston (GIS database of Boston’s Solar Initiative)
San Francisco GIS (SFGOV GIS Resource)
Bay Area + California GIS Databases (BAAMA)
Smart Grid Initiatives + Technologies
Zigbee (wireless protocol for sensing devices)
OpenSmartGrid (standardized interface for smart grid technologies)
Visualization and Simulation Software
Flare (ActionScript library for creating complex dynamic data driven visualizations)
Visual Complexity (Collection of Data Visualizations)
Fluent CFD (Flow Modeling and Engineering Simulation [Civil Case Studies])
Arduino Related Links
Fritzing (PCB Prototyping Environment)
Ubimash (GC + Arduino)
Modkit (Drag and Drop Code)
History of Arduino (Tom Igoe Interview) (Wikipedia) (History of IVREA/Arduino PDF) (Thesis Paper)
Interfacing with Other Software (Firmata)(Big List of Sotware)
Arduino at Work (Philip Beesley + Gorbet)