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Red Hook Quantified Community
About the Project

About the Project

The Quantified Community (QC)—a long-term neighborhood informatics research initiative—is a network of instrumented urban neighborhoods that collect, measure, and analyze data on physical and environmental conditions and human behavior to provide a rich resource to better understand how neighborhoods and the built environment affect individual and social well-being. To advance this work, my team has developed the QC Urban Sensor Array—a low-cost but highly accurate sensor array to measure and track localized environmental conditions, down to the individual street, block, or building. The devices measure air quality, noise, light levels, pedestrian counts, and temperature/pressure/humidity. We then combine sensor data with administrative, mobility, social media, and Wi-Fi usage data to create a neighborhood profile to track changes over time and compare to other areas of the city. These data will help communities identify and solve problems, focusing on issues of environmental health and activity, through new data and data visualization and a deeper understanding of neighborhood activity and ecology. We have partnered with the Red Hook Initiative (RHI), a local social services community organization, to install the sensors and engage with the local community to provide additional, volunteered data. We also work closely with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation and the NYC Economic Development Corporation to coordinate our activities. Data transparency and accessibility are paramount to this research.



Measurements

Temperature is an objective and comparative measure of the common notion of heat in the atmosphere.
Air Pressure is the force per area unit that air excepted over Earth's surface. The normal air pressure at sea level at 15ºC is 101 325 Pascals.
Humidity is the relative amount of water vapor present in air at a given temperature. Humans can be comfortable between 30% and 50%.
Luminosity or illuminance is the total luminous flux incident on a surface, per unit area.Typically the moon is between 0.27 and 1.0 lux, Office lighting, between 320 and 500 lux, Direct sunlight is about 100,000 lux.
Dust consists of particles concentration present in air, per unit volume. A concentration of PM2.5 of less than 12 micro grams per cubic meter as an average, with no more than 35 micro grams per cubic meter per a maximum of 24 hours exposure is considerate healthy.
Noise is the the measure of loudness, or intensity of environmental sound.It is measured in decibles. A faint sound could be at 0 decibels, a silent study room could be at 20 dB, 60 dB a normal chat, 120 dB could be harmful if too much exposure, and 140 dB is the threshold of pain.

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Our Amazing Team

JETCAM & Co

Dr. Constantine Kontokosta

Project Mentor; Head, Quantified Community; Asst. Professor, NYU CUSP & Tandon School of Engineering

Nicholas Johnson

Assistant Research Scientist, PhD Candidate, NYU CUSP

Jonathan Grundy

Graduate Student in MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, NYU CUSP

Eren Con

Graduate Student in MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, NYU CUSP

Tengfei Zheng

Graduate Student in MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, NYU CUSP

Clayton Hunter

Graduate Student in MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, NYU CUSP

Alejandro Porcel

Graduate Student in MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, NYU CUSP

Maria Ortiz

Graduate Student in MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, NYU CUSP

Awais Malik

PhD Candidate,
NYU CUSP

Bartosz Bonczak

Assistant Research Scientist,
NYU CUSP