Xilabs

The project idea

La Montre Verte (green watch) is a wristwatch, which includes environmental sensors and a GPS chip. The watch measures the local air quality and the local sound pollution. The collected data, time and place stamped, is sent in real time and anonymously to a web server. The server stocks, analyzes and redistributes the data to whoever is interested in its exploitation. Data usages range from public services: cartography, localization of « hot spots » to citizen concerns: alarms, alternative analyses, to artistic interpretations and commercial usages: service for asthmatique people.

The aim of the project Montre Verte / CityPulse is to multiply by a factor of 1000 the number of environmental sensors in the city. Direct participation of the citizen in its collection rises user awareness and helps building a sustainable living environment.

This project was initiated by XiLabs and by the FING in the framework of the ville 2.0 program. In collaboration with the CITU, Altran, FaberNovel and Quartier Numérique, 15 prototypes of the watch were realized for the Futur(s) en Seine festival 2009 .

The project

Following the success of « Montre Verte » at the festival Futur(s) en Seine, the project has rapidly grown in size and is now supported by the French State and the European Union. Two parallel project were initiated: CityPulse, the collaborative platform an Montre Verte, the communicating object.

• CityPulse: A federative web platform sharing urban environmental data

In 2010 the project CityPulse wins the call for projects web2.0 by the French Ministry of Economy. The main goal of the project is to build an open and collaborative platform of urban sensors. The platform accommodates and redistributes all data relevant to the city environment. Our partners in this project are the FING, CITU and Star-Apic.

• Capteur Montre Verte: A communicating object measuring urban pollution
  

Based on the experience gained from the prototype experiments, the objective of this project is to improve the performances and optimize the functionalities of the watch:
- Increased measurement precision
- Stabilization of the software and the hardware
- Increase of the watches’ autonomy
- Smaller form factor of the watch by better integration of the electronic components
- New object design such to include measurements of NO2, temperature and humidity
A mini-serie of 100 watches, which will include the new functionalities, will be produced.
The projet Capteur Montre Verte is winner of the AAP FEDER contest. The Région Ile-de-France and the FEDER co-finance this project. Our partners in this collaboration are PodiumIT, the CITU and the FING.