We want to enable effective dust abatement at Roskilde Festival in order to reduce the nuisance for the festival guests in connection with the so-called urine dust. The concept behind the project can be divided into three aspects; prognosis, snapshot and watering estimate.
With a forecast, we want to provide the ability to predict when unwanted dust levels will occur so that the festival can fight the dust before it becomes a significant problem. With a snapshot, we want to provide the ability in real time to see how the dust levels look at the entire festival site. With an irrigation estimate we want to offer guidance on how much water should be sprayed to achieve optimal use of these resources.
These three aspects are obtained by suspending small battery-powered boxes with sensors around the festival site, which measures the amount of dust in the air, temperature, humidity and ammonia in the air. From these parameters we want to create the data basis for making the the above tools.
We will place eight small sensor boxes in camping areas L and N, and by City Centre East. In the future they will have to cover the entire camping area.
The measurements are continually uploaded to an online server so that the data can be monitored and used in real time. In addition to the data for the dust abatement project the sensor boxes will also measure other environmental parameters such as noise, which can be used in other projects within the same subject.
By using dust forecast, snapshot and watering estimate in daily operations at Roskilde Festival, we expect the festival to save time and resources and to reduce the problem of so-called urine dust for the festival guests.
Contact info@roskilde.dtu.dk if you want to hear more!