{"id":6583,"date":"2016-08-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/epa-challenges-communities-to-develop-air-sensor-data-platforms\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:17:58","slug":"epa-challenges-communities-to-develop-air-sensor-data-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/statescoop\/epa-challenges-communities-to-develop-air-sensor-data-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA challenges communities to develop air sensor data platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it would start accepting applications for a competition to help communities develop new strategies for collecting and distributing data from air sensors.<\/p>\n

Under the\u00a0Smart City Air Challenge<\/a>, the agency will give up to two communities $40,000 each to implement a plan to deploy hundreds of low-cost air sensors and find ways to manage the data they gather. Communities are eligible to receive an additional $10,000 based on how successful the project is.<\/p>\n

Winners must share their strategies for data management with EPA and other communities as part of the competition. EPA Chief Data Scientist Robin Thottungal said that\u2019s a critical piece: In the future, environmental regulators will rely on real-time sensors for data, and this challenge encourages localities to develop minimum viable products, or MVPs,\u00a0to demonstrate how that could be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope is by having this challenge, we will be able to see multiple MVPs done by different communities across the United States,\u201d he said. EPA benefits because \u201cwe will get informed on the different methods of collecting and storing and analyzing the data.”<\/p>\n

The datasets these communities would be dealing with could be massive. Thottungal said if Washington, D.C., had an air sensor for each of its 68 square miles, the city would be collecting enough data in a year to fill 300 Blu-ray Discs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To participate, teams must include a local government representative as a member, however a \u201ccommunity\u201d can be as small as a neighborhood or as large as a county. The award will only cover a portion of the program\u2019s costs, the competition notice says, so it\u2019s important that communities partner with private sector companies or universities \u2014 or find other ways to make up the difference.<\/p>\n

EPA CIO Ann Dunkin told FedScoop that the competition\u00a0is an example of one of the \u201cmodern practices\u201d the agency is undertaking. In a\u00a0blog post<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday, she noted that developments in technology have made air quality sensors less expensive to produce.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re developing rapidly, but most sensors aren\u2019t ready for regulatory use,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, by networking these devices, communities can better understand what is happening at the local level.\u201d
The deadline for submitting a plan for the program is Oct. 28, and communities will receive word if they won shortly after Thanksgiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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