ArdOmino is a low-cost solution, based on Arduino technology, to capture data flows through specific sensors and raise local environmental awareness. ArdOmino is a “talking sensor” thought to register, interpret and share data in the form of conversation on social media platforms. The ArdOmino framework is conceived to turn numerical data into human relevant and human readable information and use the engagement of local communities to validate the data itself. Geo-tweets will be interpreting environmental information (as weather) by communicating perceived state by people, resulting not only in a simple real-time social data validation but giving a collective awareness face to the environment. Data are already shared as numerical information, but in this case the interpretation of the data itself is left to people competences, in lack of right competences this can interphere with the process of making awareness decisions. The idea of ArdOmino is to provide the system with an "interpretation model" of data useful on to create more communicative/informative messages to be shared on social media. This more informative communication style would integrate the data flow deliverd to people, increasing the culture of data and empowering citizens to take more informed decisions.

1. ArdOmino: a talking sensor for the
social sharing of local data.
Valentina Grasso, CNR Firenze - Consorzio LaMMA
Alfonso Crisci, Officina IBIMET-CNR Firenze
Francesca De Chiara, OKFN Italy / Trento RISE
Maurizio Napolitano, OKFN Italy / Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Alessandro Matese, Officina IBIMET-CNR Firenze
the talking sensor
Session 2 Open Data: a driver for development and sustainability - 17 September, 17:00-18:00 @Room 13, Floor 2

2. ArdOmino
Can a place be “sensed”?
How to turn data into human relevant/readable information?
May this information enable and improve social engagement?

3. Communication approach of a talking sensor
to share real-time local environmental “obs” to create
engagement for a SOCIAL validation of data.
the talking sensor
ArdOmino

4. ArdOmino
Webfeed
•Measures
•Models
•Forecast
#measure
#collect
#store
#data management
#comm
#share
#validate
#socialize
#manage
#interpret
#query
Data signifcacy model
PyMeteoSalute
ArdOmino Architecture
ArdOmino
configuration
Data collection Interpretation model Messages sharing

5. ARDOMINO Identity Card
• Topic: weather
• Sensors and data:
temperature, humidity
• Location: Florence, Piazza Duomo
• Communication Channel: Twitter
• Communication registers:
4 communication classes
• Timing: scheduled
Florence, Piazza Duomo
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6. https://github.com/rshk/ardomino-api
#software
http://www.adafruit.com/products/385
ArduinoUNO+ArduinoWirelessShieldSD+Wifly RN171XV + DHT22 sensors
Biometeorological application
IBIMETChassis
Power supplied.
ArdOmino Hardware

7. An interpretation model to turn data into human relevant information
-3 - Very cold
-2 - Cold
-1 - Fresh
0 - Comfort Neutral state
1 - Mild
2 - Hot
3 - Very hot
UTCI class from http://www.biometeo.it
ArdOmino Data interpetation
Ardomino collects and interprets climate
and weather data using a biometeo model
built on UTCI Universal Thermal Comfort
Index

8. REAL DATA
Data Adherence 100%
INFORMATION
Data Adherence 70%
CONVERSATION
Data Adherence 40%
ENGAGEMENT
Data Adherence 0-10%
From data to-conversation
4 communication classes of messages
ArdOmino Communicaton classes

9. Classes of messages
ArdOmino
1) REAL DATA
#realdata
2) INFORMATION
#biometeo
3) CONVERSATION
#topic
4) ENGAGEMENT
#trending

10. ArdOmino Social engagement

11. The next decade belongs to distributed models not centralized ones, to collaboration
and not control, to small data and not the big data (Rufus Pollock, OKFN)…
…and sensors are the future of the distributed data
(from Data Sensing Lab)
ArdOmino
A sort of INTERNET of PLACES
If things are “inanimate”, places are alive
the talking sensor

12. ArdOmino
Where does the wind go?
Caldonazzo Lake, Trento
Open and Smart city scenario: web, smart-phone, public
digital displays
Citizen
science
Smart
City
Open
weather
data

13. Alessandro Zaldei - IBIMET CNR a.zaldei@ibimet.cnr.it
Mirko Mancin - UNIPARMA mirkomancin90@gmail.com
Samuele Santi - Trento RISE samuele@samuelesanti.com
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We would like also to thank:
Thank YOU!
@alf_crisci
@valenitna
@lebowskiana
@napo
@alex_matese
@ArdOmino_FI
@Ardomino_Trento