SANY Sensors Anywhere

SANY has identified and addressed the major technological challenges and barriers for efficient information handling between stakeholders. This includes a number of different scenarios, where sensor data is the starting point for decision making processes in the domains of air quality management, geo-hazard mitigation and coastal water quality control.

Our very own daily life and routines are constantly influenced by environmental aspects, and, whether consciously or unconsciously, we react to these impacts and adjust our own activities accordingly. Whilst this sounds a lot like common sense, rather than the rational for another project to be funded by the European Commission, there’s a deeper layer of relevance to this: our own understanding as individuals of our environment, as well as the common understanding as a society of potential environmental threats to our way of life has improved tremendously over the past decades. Be it solar radiation, ozone levels, fine particulate matter exposure, bathing water quality or more subtle topics, such as subsidence of buildings due to infrastructure development: most, if not all, of these environmental impacts on our lives are known on a broader scale. It is this growing understanding, which eventually helps to protect the environment and promote conditions, which are beneficial to the current generation and as well as those to come.

So, what about sensors anywhere?

An observation leads to information; information leads toknowledge, to understanding and ultimately understanding may even lead to the wisdom to act accordingly.

It is this very chain that leads from abstract ozone measurements to a common wisdom to ban CFCs from widespread household usage. This is the very point where SANY contributes: making observations from sensors available in a more readily, widespread and interoperable fashion will help to improve our understanding of environmental processes and impacts on our life. It will also support the development of fusion, interpretation and visualisation tools that provide the base for well informed, improved decision making.