Air
An IoT device that senses & maps smoke, mold, humidity, radon & carbon monoxide through rolling about your environment. As you take it with you, information is shared to gradually & collectively map the health of your home, neighborhood, town, etc.
A HEALTHY SPACE
Through rolling about your space, AIR detects and gathers information about the health of your environment. It senses smoke, mold and mildew, high humidity, radon & carbon monoxide. If it senses a problem, it informs you by rolling to the area of concern, and lighting up in the color that corresponds with the issue.
The fact that this is a mobile detector, allows you to take it with you wherever you go. You have the option of leaving it at home with family, taking it to work, or even take it with you to a hotel during holiday. This allows you to always have the ability of detecting what we can’t always see.
SHARING HEALTH & SAFETY
The air we breathe, is much more shared than we’d like to think. Buildings aren’t airtight, air can easily seep through shared walls, and wind blows elements around constantly. AIR not only informs the user of the current health of the space, but it also continually maps the information and makes it accessible to others in the network. With time, and as more people use the system, the map becomes richer and richer. As more of our surroundings are sensed, AIR helps in creating an extended network of atmospheric health tracking and accountability. By having access to shared information, the system similarly informs officials of potential areas of concern.
Project Roles:
Ideation / Interface & Computational Design
• Collaborated in ideation and development of concept
• Researched issues of unhealthy urban environments
• Generated 3D digital model of prototype
• Coordinated fabrication of 3D printed mockup
• Collaborated with imagery and videos for publications and presentations
Project Credits:
Team:
• Danica Arimany. Master in Fine Arts
• Jenny Larios Berlin. MBA Candidate, Sloan MIT
• Desmond Lim. Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez. Masters of Science in Design
Affiliated Professor:
• J Meejin Yoon. Department of Architecture, MIT
• Neri Oxman. Mediated Matter Lab, MIT Media Lab
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