The Common Sense team is developing mobile environmental sensing platforms to support community action and citizen science.

An increasing number of mobile devices have the potential to become personal environmental sensors. To this end, we are developing:

• Sensing platforms that allow individuals to collect environmental information. These consist of commodity mobile phones that control simple custom devices containing low-cost gas sensors.
• Software applications that allow people to analyze, share and discuss this information in order to influence environmental regulations and policies.

We aim to develop new communication paradigms that empower communities to produce credible information that can be understood by non-experts, in order to effect positive societal change.