Model and network neighborhood food scrap diversion using crowd-sourced metadata
Even more important will be the development of the open-source tools and methods to track and monitor the health of organic urban compost.
Roadmap
With keep it close to home in mind the first step in this project is to collect and map the compost collection and drop-off locations within the city and begin measuring.
Set up Discourse as a messaging portal and Ckan as data portal. Publish everything.
Design a cheap/portable temperature sensor to monitor the health of compost, alert users and managers, and provide information on remediation.
Resources
Soil/Compost
Temperature sensor poc
Arduino schematic prototype https://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/07/25/an-arduino-powered-bbq-thermometer/