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The Swiss Experiment platform is a in initiative of the Competence Centre for Environment and Sustainability of the ETH (Swiss Technical Universities Domain). It aims to provide technologies to increase the spatial and temporal resolutions of data available to environmental researchers and in particular, focuses on providing a knowledge base of environmental measurements.

The first phase of the Swiss Experiment (SwissEx) platform (2008-2012 with a pilot phase in 2007) was wide ranging in its aims:
 * Creating new cheap, low-power sensor alternatives to currently restrictive sensors.
 * Creating new, self organising wireless networks to enable high temporal and spatial resolution measurements.
 * Creating a data system for collaborative data sharing.
 * Using all of the above to participate in collaborative cross/inter-disciplinary science.
 * Using all of the above to build an environmental education programme in Switzerland.

The second phase of the Swiss Experiment platform: the Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER, 2012-2015). This project will aim to build on the data infrastructure created during the first phase in order to create a knowledge basefor environmental research.