The Environmental Protection Agency awarded Baltimore with seed money Thursday to install a regionwide pollution-tracking system in an experiment to make “big data” part of environmental protection.
The $40,000 in seed money was given by the EPA to Baltimore and Lafayette, La., which were both chosen as part of a competition for the best sensor design that uses mobile technologies and “citizen scientists,” boosted by the surge in Internet-enabled products and smartphones, to monitor air pollution.
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