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🇨🇭 Winterthur

Bürgernetz Luftqualität

Winterthur is an official air-quality remediation zone that has long lacked neighbourhood-level data. A citizen association's Bürgernetz Luftqualität pilot tests compact LoRaWAN sensors on balconies and school roofs, with a plan to add mobile units on up to 50 trolleybuses; Phase 1 (April-July 2026) validated just 3 sensors against the official OSTLUFT reference station, with data published as open government data.

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🌱 EnvironmentSensors & IoT
Evidence• No measured figure
Scale🧪 Pilot

📖 Terms in this entry: LoRaWAN · Urban sensor network · Adaptive traffic signals

Sources

↗ Stadt Winterthur (authority)Official smart city pilot project database entry.
↗ Schweiz forscht (partner)Page of a partner involved in delivering the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇩🇪 Kreuzung frei — Sensors Secure Rescue Routes · Hanau Small-city LoRaWAN pilots, one job each: Winterthur measures air quality, Hanau detects cars blocking fire and ambulance routes. 🇦🇺 Perth Smart Water Meter Pilot · Perth Both are still validating before scaling: Winterthur checked just 3 air sensors first; Perth pilots 16,000 water meters across 10 districts. 🇩🇪 Smart City Model Project (MRN) · Heidelberg Two citizen-adjacent sensor pilots in German-speaking cities: Heidelberg runs Klima-Kompass, Winterthur's citizen group tests air sensors. 🇦🇹 Wiener Netze / Wien Energie LoRaWAN Sensor Network · Vienna Same tech, different scale: Vienna's citywide LoRaWAN has tracked waste and water since 2019; Winterthur's pilot covers 3 sensors.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Bürgernetz Luftqualität” — Winterthur, Switzerland. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/winterthur-buergernetz-luft/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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