Project Eclipse
Hyperlocal environmental sensing platform for cities
Nouvelles et reportages
What’s Your Story: Lex Story
| Johannes Gehrke et Lex Story
Model maker and fabricator Lex Story helps bring research to life through prototyping. He discusses his take on failure; the encouragement and advice that has supported his pursuit of art and science; and the sabbatical that might inspire his next…
Research Focus: Week of November 17, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is a proud platinum sponsor of the 36th annual conference on Neural…
Dans l’actualité | MuckRock / WBEZ Chicago
Chicagoans breathe the most polluted air of the year on Independence Day
The hours between 9 p.m. and midnight on July 4, 2021, ranked as the most intensely polluted hours the city experienced at any point over the past year, according to analysis of data on Chicago’s air quality. The new analysis…
Prix | Green Good Design
Project Eclipse Chicago deployment recognized with a Green Good Design Award 2022
Project Eclipse recognized with a 2022 Green Good Design Award for their Eclipse Air Sensor Transit Shelters Chicago Deployment. In July 2021, the Project Eclipse team at Microsoft Urban Innovation Research began a partnership with JCDecaux Chicago, LLC and team…
Dans l’actualité | Chicago Sun Times
The dangers in our air: Mapping Chicago’s air pollution hotspots
An analysis of readings from newly-installed air sensors across the city found portions of Little Village, Austin, Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Irving Park and Avondale have the highest levels of particulate matter pollution — a known cause of serious health problems.
Dans l’actualité | WBEZ
What’s in the air?
Fine particulate matter is responsible for an estimated 5% of all premature deaths in Chicago. What is it and where does it come from? Each time we take a breath, the outside world finds its way into our body. One…
Dans l’actualité | MuckRock
What we did to analyze Chicago’s air pollution hotspots
Chicago has several EPA regulatory stations, considered the gold standard of air quality testing; an array of cheaper sensor networks across the city and suburbs like PurpleAir and Microsoft’s pilot project; and new satellite imagery that can detect a host…
Dans l’actualité | Financial Times
Three ways to ensure health tech innovation benefits all
As digital technologies become widespread in our lives, they have enormous potential to influence health and wellbeing. To get the most out of them, we need a new form of innovation focused on those who face the toughest barriers. And…