Odour Collect App ready for use …
The Odour Observatory platform will be supported by our Odour Collect App, now in its second version, which will help to create collaborative maps of real-time odour observations. The app makes it easy to report odours that residents come across in their daily lives, across their community, and co-create maps of issues their local area.
Identifying odours and their sources can be a difficult task, given the many variations of odours that can be emitted from any one source. This is why normally odour studies are conducted by trained experts. But Odour Collect only requires users to rate the registered odours on their hedonic tone (is it a pleasant or unpleasant smell), and their intensity. This apparent simplicity hides the complexity of the validation and back tracing process in the background. The odour reports are fed into sophisticated dispersion models that include geographical and weather data to trace the odour path to their probable source. Odour experts can then investigate the activities at the source and suggest ways to resolve the problem.
Do you have odour issues in your area? You can now use the Odour Collect app to report them!
The Odour Collect application is available online and on android phones from the Google Playstore.
Click here to learn more and start using the Odour Collect Webapp.
