SensorGrid is an environmental sensor project being developed at Northwestern University’s Knight Lab by faculty, staff, and students of diverse skills and backgrounds. The Knight Lab provides an open, collaborative environment for interdisciplinary exploration and conversation, where students and professionals learn together and from one another. This hands-on project has facilitated mutual learning opportunities between students within journalism, engineering, and computer science. These diverse teams have been working together to design, build, and develop an autonomous network of environmental sensors that offers communities, journalists, and academics a low-cost tool for collecting high-definition air quality data.
