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Sensor Web wants to carry on Mozilla’s mission to promote the open web when it evolves to the physical world. It aims to find the easiest path from sensors to open data so contributors can collaboratively use sensors to get a great detail of understanding of their living environment. This can be the air quality or temperature of their neighboring street, the waiting time of their favorite cafe, water quality from rivers close to the village, etc. Sensor Web is a blueprint to enable many hyper local uses cases and make sure everyone gets to access that data.
Sensor Web is a new approach using the Web of Things to solve real-time problems. Its model is fairly simple- use sensors to grab real-time content from environment, publish the content on the web, and deliver relevant sensor content to consumers at the right time.  


Sensor Web does not try to find one killer use case that suits everyone. It is a blueprint to enable many hyper local use cases. Today, we all use the web to access information we need when we need it. Sensor Web envisions the same future for real-time sensor content. Each person can find a problem they want to solve with sensors and easily publish the sensor content on the web. When a user searches for information online, they are automatically presented with real-time sensor content should it fits what they are looking for.  
Today, we all use the web to access information generated by people. Sensor Web envisions a future of web that everyone freely shares and accesses real-time sensor data for better understanding of our living environment. Contributors can find a problem they want to solve with sensors and easily publish the sensor data on the web as they do with the web pages today. When a web user searches for information online, they will be presented with the relevant real-time data published by a sensor, or insights from analyzing hundreds or thousands of sensor data.


We picked one use case to be our pilot project and would like to invite everyone who shares the same purpose to contribute, weather you are a developer, a blogger, or simply want to help.


== Problem Statement ==
== Pilot Project ==


People have a need to know the real-time situation of a remote environment, for instance, knowing if a cafe they plan to go to is too busy to serve them, or if it is foggy and cold in San Francisco though it is 80 degrees and sunny in Palo Alto, or if the overcast weather in Shanghai is due to fog or to smog. Today, general consumers do not have a solution for these questions other than having someone at the scene live-broadcast the environment 24/7. There is a need for real-time environment scouts and a ubiquitous and secure platform for these scouts to publish their results to the public, or to a selected number of audience.  
We are working on a pilot project to build a crowdsourcing PM2.5 sensor network. PM2.5 is a growing problem that affects many parts of the world. Government around the world are asked to publish open data of PM2.5 index from their monitoring stations. However, government and companies can only set up so many stations. As a result, people can not obtain meaningful insights from the data. For instance, we will not be able to know when the air is bad in our neighborhood due to a harmful material released by a nearby construction site as the government data tells us the city  has a healthy number of PM2.5. We also will not know if our office has worse air quality compared to outside air or that the route and the time we choose to do our daily run is very bad for our health. We have access to numbers, but they are meaningful as it does not link to our day to day life.


== Solution Proposal ==
== Next Step ==


There is a growing number of connected devices (broadly defined as THINGS by the industry). Equipped with the right technology -- such as sensors to read the environment and the connectivity to send out the reads – these things can be made ready to serve as our environment scouts. There is currently a lack of an open, ubiquitous, and secure platform for THINGS that collect the content (data) to reach its audience. The Web is the solution for this. Sensor Web is an initiative to serve as an example of using the web as a platform in order to grow the content ecosystem, and to bring the right content to its audience.
The team received Mozilla’s support to continue with the development of this pilot project. We plan to share more information in Q2, 2016 for people who care for this problem to participate. We will announce it through Mozilla’s website and mailing list as soon as it is ready. Stay tuned!


== Target Audience ==
== Reference for Mozillians ==
 
Sensor Web aims to provide a solution to fulfill the needs of multiple audiences. 
 
*Web user
Firefox and Firefox users can directly access relevant content collected by THINGS when they use their Firefox browser and Firefox OS-based products.
 
*Device maker or enthusiast
Mozilla provides the platform to inspire device makers and enthusiasts to think outside of the OS box and to easily publish their sensor data to all the web users.
 
*Service provider
New service models can be created. For instance, a cafe or restaurant can optimize their operations by publishing real-time human traffic of their cafe or restaurant, and customers can choose to be notified when a currently crowded retail place becomes ready to serve.
 
== Project Progress ==
*[https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/18th+Feb+2016 Latest status update]  
*[https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/18th+Feb+2016 Latest status update]  
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j1Kdtje1YtCMmjpPbmkiq3W377OU47JWD-TQtauPu8k/edit#slide=id.g10993aed52_11_0 Innovation Board pitch deck 2016.02.18]
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j1Kdtje1YtCMmjpPbmkiq3W377OU47JWD-TQtauPu8k/edit#slide=id.g10993aed52_11_0 Innovation Board pitch deck 2016.02.18]
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* [mailto:evanxd@mozilla.com Evan Tseng]- Engineering
* [mailto:evanxd@mozilla.com Evan Tseng]- Engineering
* [mailto:mliang@mozilla.com Mark Liang]- UX Design
* [mailto:mliang@mozilla.com Mark Liang]- UX Design
== Presentation Video ==
*[https://youtu.be/1XSoM7Ujw80/ Video]
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