Instruments for checking physical characteristics

Tender description

Newcastle University invites bids to join a Dynamic Purchasing System it is establishing for the provision of a range of environmental sensor equipment for it's Urban Observatory project in the city. The Urban Observatory is a research project funded by Newcastle University as part of Science Central initiative. It seeks to understand how a city system functions and how different parameters interact. (E.g. heat island effect and green spaces, flooding and traffic congestion.) All the sensor data is open and available to the public via this portal (http://uoweb1.ncl.ac.uk/ ) There will be 6 Sensor lots on this DPS: 1. Environment; 2. Weather; 3. Transport; 4. Energy; 5. Water; 6. Human. Suppliers must indicate which lots they are applying for in this initial DPS Round.