Mobile phone masts across Dublin have sensors installed to track the amount of greenhouse gases the city produces, reports the Irish Independent.
According to Independent, the Urban Sense pilot project will contribute to closing a critical knowledge gap regarding the causes of greenhouse gas emissions in the nation’s greatest population centre as well as the circumstances and actions that affect them.
It is now feasible thanks to the creation of an inexpensive, lunchbox-sized sensor that mounts to rooftop cell phone masts.
According to Independent, a little radio next to it sends the data back to analysts minute by minute.
Teagasc presently uses “flux towers,” which are comparable sensors that may cost up to €250,000 each, to measure methane emissions from farms.
“Ours costs a couple of hundred euro and that will make a huge difference in allowing them to be placed in multiple sites,” said Dr Gary McDarby of Edgeliot, reports the Irish Independent.
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