Potential Applications
- Quality of Roads: For statistically sound estimates, send people to particular locations. Measure progress over time.
- Trash: Estimate the amount of trash on the street. Again measure progress over time.
- Unauthorized posters/banners: Estimate the number of posters, graffiti, etc. on the walls etc. next to the street.
- Noise Pollution: Estimate noise pollution at a given location. This information is vital for potential home-buyers and people looking to estimate noise pollution due to construction, aircrafts, and such.
- Air pollution: Calculate the air pollution through the city. Again it can be used to learn whether air pollution affects poor people more, who the hidden polluters are, etc.
- Bird Surveys: How many birds were sighted in the city as a way to estimate number of birds in each season.
- Spot the product: Estimate how many people are consuming a product publicly, wearing a prominent brand, etc.
- Estimate prevalence of color blindness, shortsightedness etc.
- Estimate the average number of hours that people sleep. FitBit doesn’t give data on a representative population.