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Collaborative project: Smart sensor electronics to capture and evaluate ecosystem performance - subproject B (SmartGreen)
Project
Project code: 2818911B20
Contract period: 01.04.2022
- 31.05.2024
Budget: 210,244 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: Monitoring, horticulture, data collection, environment and nature protection, urban agriculture, sensor technology, building/housing, poison/toxins
For numerous socio-ecological reasons, the greening of urban neighbourhoods is meaningful. There is a growing perception and appreciation in society and politics for the positive impact (ecosystem performance) of urban green infrastructure, horticulture and green services. Green areas serve as a recreation room for humans. They cool by evapotranspiration and shadowing in summer and help to mitigate microclimatic heat herds caused by sealed surfaces and additionally cleanse the vital ambient air, e.g. from pollutants such as radicals, radical nitrogen oxides and respirable fine dust. Living green makes cities more resilient, reduces health risks, lowers people’s stress levels and strengthens biodiversity. If the design of such habitats in urban development continues to be the focus, more indicators of the actual performance of such created ecosystems are needed in order to justify possible additional effort in the implementation of new buildings or restructuring measures vis-à-vis developers, promoters and and the population. With the current state of the art the reliable, transferable and reproducible intake of this so-called ecosystem service is associated with a high technical and therefore financial effort and is therefore often not accepted for economic reasons. The system envisaged by the present project application is intended to enable a standardised, reliable and cost-effective assessment of the benefits of ecosystems in terms of a positive change in air quality, but also in terms of climatic parameters that come into focus due to climate change. Both classical horizontal greening and ever more demanded vertical greening systems are addressed.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Horticulture
- Landscape Planning
- Climate Change
