Re: Roving air quality monitor example data usage

Ted,

This is a great example albeit not so much for air quality data but for the
complexity of policies.

Briefly addressing air quality data: I think that is better measured by
putting the relevant sensor into the areas of interest (cities, parks,
etc.) then using vehicles, as other environmental data has to be measured
e.g. wind speed and direction. However, that data is typically not provided
by a vehicle sensor (it's also not really feasible to measure unless the
vehicle does not move). The set of data you are mentioning, only provides
information on how much that particular vehicle contributes to air quality.
To get a good air quality measurement one would need pretty much the data
from all vehicles in that particular area for it to be somewhat reliable.

Looking at the policy: how would that be presented to an end-user? The
example has 10 sensor data points.

Scenario 1: "Dear Driver, MIT's Environmental Institute would like to
collect the following data form your vehicle to assess the air quality in
Boston: rain intensity, air temperature, engine mass air flow, long term O2
trim 1, O2 Senors WR, O2 Sensor Alt, longitude, latitude, altitude. Do you
agree to collecting that data? Yes/No"

Driver 1 to MIT: "I appreciate the detail but you lost me at 'engine mass
air flow' but I do understand longitude, latitude and altitude and I am not
sure if I want you to know where I am driving."
Driver 2 to MIT: "What the ..."
Driver 3 to MIT: "Of course, it must be for a good cause, I trust MIT and I
always click on Yes anyway."


Scenario 2: "Dear Driver, MIT's Environmental Institute would like to
collect data from your vehicle to assess the air quality in Boston. Do you
agree to collecting that data? Yes/No"

Driver 1 to MIT: "I am environmentally conscious but could you please tell
me what data you are collecting?"
Driver 2 to MIT: "Another one of these spy apps..."
Driver 3 to MIT: "Of course, it must be for a good cause, I trust MIT and I
always click on Yes anyway."


Scenario 3: "Dear Driver, MIT's Environmental Institute would like to
collect data from your vehicle to assess the air quality in Boston. The
data includes how much your vehicle contributes to the pollution as well as
the current position of your vehicle and environmental information such as
current air temperature and if it is currently raining and how much. We do
not collect any personally identifiable data such as what car you are
driving, vehicle identification etc. All data is collected anonymously  Do
you agree to collecting that data? Yes/No"

Driver 1 to MIT: "Good idea. Deal!"
Driver 2 to MIT: "How does Google define 'anonymous' again?"
Driver 3 to MIT: "Of course, it must be for a good cause, I trust MIT and I
always click on Yes anyway."


For me the most important part of all policy systems is presentation to the
user. For this example, the user does not have any direct negative
experience when not allowing the collection of the data. However, there are
applications that provide the user with a benefit but sometimes the benefit
does not seem to be directly related to the data accessed. These examples
are even more complicated, as now the user should also be given information
on how declining the request would impact the benefits.

:rjs

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:11 PM Ted Guild <ted@w3.org> wrote:

> The scenario I had in mind stems from a hasty conclusion I drew when I
> saw an early prototype of VISS done by NewSky and Baidu on city buses
> in China. The data points on the active city maps was showing a small
> number of data points including location and engine temperature. I
> wondered if they were deducing air quality based on how rich or lean
> the engine was running. They weren't, it was a random selection of data
> points. We heard last week on the Working Group call however where one
> of the many IoT uses of vehicles is as a roving air quality sensor with
> the aid of aftermarket sensors likely measuring parts per million of
> pollutant particles. There may be inferences that can be drawn in the
> absence of such a specific sensor based on the signals information
> available.
>
> One of my children suffer from asthma and impacted by air quality so as
> a parent, I would not only wish to learn overall air quality where I
> live but pockets that might have worse quality to avoid. I would also
> be willing to participate in the data collection provided the service
> and researchers are not collecting any identifying information about
> me.
>
> For this exercise we will provide verbose policy example, who is giving
> permission to collect which data to be shared with which parties for
> what specific purposes. Later we can take our examples and work them
> into an actual policy language format.
>
> I would be willing to provide information on engine performance, O2
> measurements, my location, rain, temperature, etc to designated
> researcher who in turns makes the data available realtime for air
> quality reports.
>
> There may be additional data points that can help provide answers on
> air quality that are not obvious to me. These seem plausible and
> sufficient for this exercise. Falling rain cleans the air and is
> certainly a factor as is humidity that can exacerbate.
>
> From VSS here are some potential data points that might contribute to
> such a use case:
>
> Signal.Body.Rainsensor
>
> Signal.Body.Rainsensor.Intensity
>
> Signal.Drivetrain.InternalCombustionEngine.AmbientAirTemperature
>
> Signal.Drivetrain.InternalCombustionEngine.MAF (Grams of air drawn into
> engine per second)
>
> Signal.OBD.LongTermO2Trim1
>
> Signal.OBD.O2SensorsWR
>
> Signal.OBD.O2SensorsAlt
>
> Longitude Latitude and Altitude.
>
> --
> Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>
> W3C Automotive Lead
> http://www.w3.org
>
>

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