382 NE 191st St #31602

Miami, FL 33179-3899
connect@cityos.io

TECH WORKSHOP
BUILD AN AIR POLLUTION
MONITORING DEVICE

C U R R I C U LU M

Last update: April 2017

Prepared by: CityOS Foundation

DESCRIPTION

Air pollution is a serious risk to human health and was estimated to cause
3.7 million premature deaths in 2012. We are an energetic community of
people willing to act, with a simple plan to get back our basic right to
breathe clean air. We believe in two things: (1) what gets measured gets
improved and (2) that together we can do more. We share knowledge,
develop technology and together track the air we breathe. The result is a
street-level real-time sensor network.

Join a free workshop and learn everything you need to build your own
Boxy air pollution station. This zero to hero workshop will walk you through
building your own CityOS Air device. First you will get to know your tools,
then you will learn how to put all electronic parts together, how to setup
dev environment and finally how to build an enclosure.

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When you are done you will have a sensor lamp (Boxy) that will monitor
temperature, humidity and most importantly air pollution (specifically PM
1.0, 2.5 and 10). On the surface Boxy is a beautiful little lamp. But Boxy has
character and special abilities: it monitors air pollution, shows you air
quality by changing its mood colors, talks to mobile apps and draws city-
wide pollution maps.

Boxy was designed by the CityOS team with the goal of being so simple
that everyone can learn how to build one in a day. You can do it yourself
by following the online tutorials or by joining a workshop, where we will
teach you all you need to know about pollution, electronics, programming
and industrial design. You will build a Boxy to take home right there.
In addition, the data collected by Boxy is open and software and
hardware are all fully open-sourced too, so everyone can modify it,
extend it, hack it and love it.
Find more info here: https://cityos.io/air

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PROGRAM

- CityOS air story

- It started in Sarajevo
- Outdated vs new air monitoring
- Air pollution health risk
- Code red - what to do?
- Get to know your tools
- Hardware setup
- Breadboard version setup
- Compact version setup
- Dev environment setup
- Build lamp box

DURATION

7 hours

LEVEL

Beginner

CAPACITY

10 people

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REQUIREMENTS

Participants:
- Laptops
- GEO location
Instructor:
- Internet and power
- Projector/TV + HDMI
- Workshop kits (https://cityos-air.readme.io/docs/bill-of-materials)
- Tables and chairs

INSTRUCTORS

Ceco Gakovic, founder at CityOS

As a founder, CTO, BoD member and
Advisor, Ceco has been part of many
successful San Francisco Internet and
mobile startups. Ceco and his teams
have specialized on social networks
and built web and mobile platforms
for some of the world's largest
brands like: U2.com, Madonna.com,
NFL, NHL, NBA, Weather.com,
National Geographic, Martha
Stewart Omnimedia, Harley
Davidson, HBO, Budget Travel, History Channel, Travel Channel, NBC
Universal, Guinness World Records and numerous professional sports

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teams around the world. He has also build yuku.com 450K sites large
white-label SaaS network.

Prior to the social network era, Ceco architected portals and collaborative
environments for clients such as Yahoo, HP, ATT, Microsoft, AMD, Cisco
and Intel and developed touch-screen driven automation and media
systems for large vessels, including the largest sailing boat in the world at
the time, Jim Clark's cyber-yacht project, the Hyperior.

During his career Ceco has lived and worked in 10 countries on 4

continents. He is also a helicopter pilot, skipper, rock-climber, skier, diver,
paraglider, jiu-jitsu veteran and a father of two. He retired at the age of 35
and has since been dedicating his time to helping kick-o IOT (smart
cities), Internet and mobile startups around the world.

In the last few years Ceco Gakovic has been active in kickstarting
Sarajevos burgeoning tech community with projects like Brave Startup
and Hub387, among other great initiatives. In the process, he helped
create many startups and tech solutions for cities. He has been fostering
entrepreneurship and city technological solutions across the region as
well. Recently Ceco has been focused on the CityOS Foundation, whose
sole purpose is to bring knowledge to young people in cities and equip
them with skills to improve their own cities using the latest technology. In
the process, besides creating better, more sustainable environments for
living, it also creates young startups, results in practical education and
meaningful involvement of wider communities.

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Selma Hadzic, COO at CityOS

Master degree in Management and

Organization from the University of
Sarajevo. Selma started her career at
the Institute of Metrology of Bosnia
and Herzegovina. She spent three
years working on the projects within
the European Metrology Research
Program. Parallel, she was working as
a Program Coordinator at
Entrepreneurship and Knowledge
Management Centre, and has been actively involved in implementations
of educational programs such as Startup Challenge and Brave Startup.
Previously, Selma was CEO at HUB387 - technology park in Sarajevo,
where she was leading a Startup Acceleration Program. Currently acting
as COO at CityOS.

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