As I said, asking people who already do this sort of thing to host a sensor and the traffic on this forum is mostly on-demand - people post questions & announcements as required - there are only a handful of regular visitors so you won’t have got the coverage you may have thought you would. If you consider the number of TTN gateways worldwide and the number in London, that would give you a rough idea of what percentage of forum users may be able to consider your proposition.
No one was aiming to be offensive, definitely a misfire in wording by another non-native English speaker who suffers from students using LLMs day in day out, something I fully appreciate myself having just facilitated & funded a science project to measure temperature & humidity from the ground to 32,000m that was beset with ‘interesting’ content in the write-ups by students using LLMs to jazz up their writing, ending up with some absurd conclusions.
On this forum we occasionally get people posting in native language and we have to ask them to use Google Translate as forum policy is English first. And we get plenty of confusion with posts related to nomenclature and the wrong adjectives. It is a common hazard of a world-wide forum that I see on the others I use as well, Arduino, Heltec, RAK and more. It’s not personal.
The irony is that @stevencellist actually runs a similar project to yours with his students looking at air quality.
Maybe a bit discouraging? Or perhaps realistic? Maybe a bit naive to land an announcement without paving the way in advance by talking about what you are doing and hope to achieve and how LW users in London could help, before launching? That way, those of us that do environmental monitoring could have contributed to your thinking and you’d have understood the tone & dynamics & makeup of the community you wanted to address. These are things we learn as we travel through life.
I am sure you get great feedback from the public, many of whom have no idea how such things could work, whereas the audience here knows rather more than most. I too have met The Princess Royal but that was to say thank you for my technical work on a charity project, not validate or endorse it. I can imagine that feedback here felt very different. Such is life, you present a solution to one group, they love it, but the next presentation falls on fallow ground or even outright opposition.
This wasn’t mentioned previously. Will you be including the RSSI & SNR on the map &/or providing a download of data &/or doing this analysis.
I’m not sure who these people might be, but as I’ve suggested above, coming to a worldwide technical forum is a whole different audience than people living & working in London.
Not science but London for me (I’m near Manchester) is a remove one clothing layer city, go up to Edinburgh, it’s add one layer. But generally the urban heat in London I find oppressive in summer so just try to avoid - the concrete traps so much heat that there is no letup. I can easily imagine that this issue has huge health consequences for many people.
To that end, I believe your research is hugely valuable and I commend you on creating a device, coding it, designing an appropriate enclosure & building the website - very much a multi-disciplinary project. The need for more up to date & accessible toolkits was discussed at the recent Open Source Hardware conference which I am actively pursuing a followup as both myself & @stevencellist have expertise & the inclination to work on this. One of the presenters, Jo Walsh, is based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and is looking to run workshops this year. You can see the presentation here.
As @Jeff-UK points out, the Microchip modules are somewhat dated - they work fine but are exactly the sort of dichotomy raised in discussions at the OSHWA conference - generally available hardware is a little more expensive and up to date and easier to code for. So making such a hardware design a key element of your paper would be contra-indicated. But the concept of evaluating the use of low-cost battery driven long range radio sensors to collect temperature data at a fine-grained level, presumably mapped to the surrounding build materials or ground cover, feels likely to bring new insights in to how the built environment should be changed to manage climate more effectively.
This looks to have been a rather harsh introduction to a different part of the IoT sensing eco-system for you. Maybe take time to reflect on how things are different in different user groups, maybe ask questions to sound out those differences & build different approaches to accommodate them.
In the meanwhile, you’ve about 2 weeks left before schools close, I’d just find some near to gateways and drop in on them with a sensor and ask to put it up somewhere in the grounds.
). What would make this not ‘just’ another sensor is obviously the work being done on the acquired Data and how utilised/used. Will you be providing insight and data on the analysis of the point data or just displaying the location datapoints (any heat mapping or time based ebb and flow animation around the heat islands etc.?). Are you open to allowing other temp sensors feeding in data to your analysis or are you just looking at data from a known device type for control/repeatability etc.? (There are lots of other T/T&H sensors deployed in and around Greater London across the community likely from dozens if not hundreds of device types…T/T&H being the start point for many peoples LoRaWAN sensor journey! 
). How often are you updating the ‘live’ data for each site?
