AirVisual provides home air quality monitors revealing invisible threats indoors and out. As a crowd-sourced social enterprise, AirVisual is building an online community seeking to grow awareness worldwide by providing community members no-nonsense information and access to historical, real-time and forecast air quality data.
Find out more at https://airvisual.com
CAPTOR is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme and started in January 2016. It will:
Find out more at http://captor-project.eu
CITI-SENSE will develop “citizens’ observatories” to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making.
CITI-SENSE will develop, test, demonstrate and validate a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observation applications.
Find out more at http://www.citi-sense.eu/Default.aspx
Makers of the Plume #AirReport, urban weather forecast and environmental AI to beat air pollution in 40+ countries around the world. For iOS, Watch & Android.
Find out more at https://plumelabs.com/
iSCAPE (Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe) project
As part of the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges funding scheme, engineers from Trinity College Dublin will deploy next-gen environmental living labs in cities across Europe to improve air quality and reduce their carbon footprint.
The engineering team will develop sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives between now and 2019. Find out more at https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/engineers-to-improve-air-quality-in-european-cities-with-living-labs/6383#.VvE37RIrKRs
Citizen Science Used to Map Community Air Quality
Mapping for Change has supported many communities across London to measure and map local air quality. A ‘citizen science’ approach has meant local residents in over 30 locations have been able to collect data, then see the real results of their monitoring activities. Find out more at http://mappingforchange.org.uk
AirCasting is an open-source, end-to-end solution for collecting, displaying, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone.
AirCasting is a platform for recording, mapping, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone. Each AirCasting session lets you capture real-world measurements, annotate the data to tell your story, and share it via the CrowdMap.
Find out more at http://aircasting.org/
The senseBox is a do-it-yourself kit for stationary and mobile sensor stations – a citizen science toolkit for anyone.
With the senseBox citizens and schools to environmental data on climate, air quality, traffic, noise and more measured and thus contribute to more accurate statements about local environmental phenomena.
Find out more at http://www.sensebox.de
A community-led air quality sensing network that gives people a way to participate in the conversation about air quality.
The Air Quality Egg is a sensor system designed to allow anyone to collect very high resolution readings of NO2 and CO concentrations outside of their home. These two gases are the most indicative elements related to urban air pollution that are sense-able by inexpensive, DIY sensors.
Find out more at http://airqualityegg.com
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