Lisbon's Environmental Parameters Sensor Network

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Since March 2021, Lisbon's city council has run 80 multi-sensor stations — 658 sensors total — across the city, tracking air pollutants (NO2, O3, PM2.5/PM10, SO2, CO), noise, weather and hourly traffic. Contracted to vendors MONITAR and QART and partly funded (≈€350,000) by the EU's Sharing Cities programme, readings publish on the Lisboa Aberta portal and feed the city's PGIL dashboard.

Live 📅 since 2021

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byCâmara Municipal de Lisboa (deployed under contract with MONITAR and QART)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Cost≈€350,000

FundingCâmara Municipal de Lisboa city budget, partially co-financed by the EU H2020 Sharing Cities programme

🎓 Lesson

The network is one of roughly forty systems that feed Lisbon's PGIL dashboard, so a well-funded, purpose-built sensor deployment with its own contractors and EU co-financing is easy to mistake for just a feature of that platform.

🌱 Environment Air quality Sensors & IoT Open data

Sources

↗ dados.gov.pt (mirroring Câmara Municipal de Lisboa open data portal) — Monitorização de Parâmetros Ambientais da Cidade de Lisboa (authority)Official dataset record; confirms parameters monitored, current monitoring period (2025-2027) and a March 2026 update, showing the network is still active.

↗ RTP (public broadcaster, press)Confirms 80 stations / 658 sensors, first stations live February 2021, department/councillor responsible.

↗ Lisboa Para Pessoas (local press)Confirms full-network date (end of March 2021), the ~€350,000 cost, and partial EU H2020 Sharing Cities co-financing.

↗ NOVA University Lisbon (RUN institutional repository) — Miguéis 2022 thesis (academic)Independent academic evaluation confirming the 80-station deployment was contracted to two companies, MONITAR and QART.

↗ Smart Cities Portugal — the QART monitoring product (trade press)Background on QART, the multi-parameter air/noise/traffic monitoring product later contracted by CML.

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🇵🇹 PGIL — Lisboa Inteligente · Lisbon This €350,000, 80-station network is one of roughly 40 systems Lisbon's PGIL dashboard pulls together — pollution and noise among them. 🇵🇹 Lisbon Drainage Master Plan Sensors · Lisbon Two purpose-built CML sensor networks feeding PGIL: flood/flow sensors since 2023, air/noise/traffic sensors since 2021. 🇵🇹 Carris Real-Time Bus & Tram Tracking · Lisbon Another verified project from Lisbon.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision 🌫️ Air quality guide 🏙️ Lisbon city profile 🌱 Environment projects 📖 Low-emission zone 📖 Open data 📖 Urban data platform (UDP)

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Lisbon's Environmental Parameters Sensor Network” — Lisbon, Portugal. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/lisbon-environmental-sensor-network/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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