Abstract: A method for pollutant sensor placement is described. Data about environmental characteristics across a geographic region is received from a plurality of environmental sensors. The geographic region includes one or more pollutant sources that emit a pollutant. The received data is transformed from one or more of the plurality of environmental sensors into common data having a common grid across the geographic region. The geographic region is divided into a plurality of sub-regions based on the common data. Locations within the geographic region are determined for placement of pollutant sensors based on estimated dispersion of the pollutant through the plurality of sub-regions.

Abstract: A method for generating scheduling recommendations for energy consumption tasks includes determining an estimated time-variant quantity of carbon emissions released from an energy supply plant over a future time interval; predicting a probability of user compliance with a recommendation to initiate an energy consumption task at one or more times within the future time interval; selecting a recommended start time for the energy consumption task based on both the predicted time-variant quantity of carbon emissions and the predicted probability of user compliance with the recommendation at the recommended start time; and outputting the recommended start time.