Study of environmental data from vehicle’s sensors and its aplicability to complement climate mapping from automatic meteorological stations and assess covid-19 impact

An evolution of smart and connected cars allows the advancement of smart cities and new business models for automakers. The main objective of this article was to understand the capability of Brazilian vehicles to collect meteorological data, through an observational approach of vehicle technologies and an applied study of automatic weather stations. In 2020, when the world was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies were conducted in order to find a possible relationship between these meteorological data and the incidence of the novel coronavirus. Through this study, meteorological variables that are collected by the stations, as well as vehicles, were compared in order to evaluate the potential of data combination, in addition to the analysis of the influence of these variables in pandemic cases like COVID-19. In this context, it was understood the vehicle’s advancement as a mobile sensor and the usage of vehicle’s data as a tool for a better understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.