iButton Instrument

This project was a component of the larger NSF funded Three City Heat and Electrical Failure AdapTation (3HEAT) Study, which aimed to assess the health impact of a simultaneous city-wide power outage and heatwave in the cities of Phoenix, Arizona; Detroit, Michigan; and Atlanta, Georgia. This subset of the larger 3HEAT project aimed to measure the personal heat exposure of Phoenix residents. Additionally we related residents' personal heat exposure profiles to their daily activities, cooling methods, and thermal comfort. The data from this project could be reused to better understand the relationship between heat exposure, thermal comfort, and daily activity at an individual scale. This data could also be used in combination with similar datasets to explore these relationships across different cities or to compare different methods of assessing personal heat exposure.